M.T. Stone was the poster boy for what an assassin should look like.

I took a step back, shaking my head, wishing I could place a gnarly black hex on him. My daddy taught me better than that.

Humans did not want to know about non-humans. Funny thing was most non-humans felt the same way, happy to hide their abilities and talents to avoid witch hunts and wholesale slaughter.

If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.

To be lonely is to have lost the enjoyed fellowship with God

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.

I've learned that a family can have little glitches without being labeled dysfunctional.

You go to India and you see the poorest village somewhere in the middle of India. And the poor family is happier than any rich billionaire in this country because of spirituality.

If you want to have world peace, go to your house and love your family.

[Before introducing the nominees for best animated film] If you're at the awards party with the guys who made the Lego Movie, now would be a good time to distract them.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

You don't make your character in a crisis, you exhibit it.