I try not to look back on my career.

I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.

If have the choice, to play or not play, I would rather be in there, ... But I appreciate Willie calling me in and being concerned.

TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.

One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

Travel from what is called Pakistan to Afghanistan has been made increasingly difficult and people are often labelled terrorists, even those who might be just visiting families.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

[The Democrats] can't stop anything. It's why everybody's so confused why they reelected [Nancy] Pelosi.

Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.

One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.