Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.

A man who is not accountable to anyone is a danger to himself

Don't believe the hype that black North Carolinians are not voting. We've heard this time and time again. It's just not the truth.

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

Invisibility is the only thing that fame cost me. I used to be able to go places and blend in. Anonymity is something you lose on this side of things.

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

You don't have to go that far back - March 2017 - and Donald Trump was already getting frustrated with the fact that Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan were stonewalling him.

Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.