I'm always angry. I wake up angry. There is a lot to be angry about. Anger is a positive energy.

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.

The reality is that who you are is who you are right this second, not who you were at any moment in the past because it doesn't exist anymore. It's done. It's over.

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.

When it comes to emotions, we all feel pain in the same way, everyone, whether you're from Istanbul or Beijing.

When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.

~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~

If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.

If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU...

And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.

There was something about Mikie that made me want to trust him. It might have been the Centanario Anejo.

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.

Don't bait your breath. That's bad for your health.

A symbolic victory is still a victory.

Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.

Success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and I alone determine whether I do so.

...the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old.

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.