I laugh a lot and laugh loudly!

Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.

You need a blueprint to build a house because you need to know how far the concrete is going to be poured and you need to know how think the walls have to be.

I enjoy bringing humanity to complex characters.

Seek the truth. Tell the truth. Live in truth.

Falling in love is easy, but somebody tell me how to stay there.

Becoming a junior usher at a black church was my entry into the wonder of worship.

DNA has memory!

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...

some winterswill never meltsome summerswill never freezeand some things will only... live in poems.

Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.

Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.

I declare today for the world to hear that the West will never, ever be broken. Our values will prevail. Our people will thrive. And our civilization will triumph.

What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out of shape and frustrated and angry and then unhappy, we take it out on everybody.

I'm not a predictable black liberal.

Having Zoe saved my life. It was my wake-up call. There were so many things I didn't want to pass on to her.

Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.