I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional. It costs an obscene amount of money.

Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims.

Evil's when you push your agenda over someone else's. When you assert your beliefs over somebody's contrary beliefs. That's evil.

It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.

Saint abroad and a devil at home.

I just love music, so that's what I'm always working on, and I try to say yes a lot. Maybe I'm more ambitious than I thought I was.

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]

If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.

On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.

So hope for a great sea-change on the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore is reachable from here. Believe in miracles and cures and healing wells.

I would have to say that my divorce was an incredibly difficult experience in my life, but I am truly thankful for it. It made me a stronger and better person.