It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

I'm sure the next time Piers Morgan asks me to host his show again I will ask President Obama to be my guest.

Fantasy football is actually an amazing American pastime, because it takes the ultimate team sport, NFL and football, and turns it into the quest for individual achievement.

The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.

As actors you don't want to have one label. You'd rather have seven.

Justice is for the victim.” Kick. “Vengeance is for the survivor.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.