I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God's mercy.

I do think that even if the average person doesn't care, it IS a big deal. Like, it's been a foundational principle of our democracy for 240 years.

What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.

I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.

There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.

I like doing both comedy and drama. I'm not really feeling more drawn to one over the other. I also like dramedies. I like movies and TV shows that are mixtures of the two.

Hit it hard. It will land somewhere.

Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation.

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.