Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are - the economy, jobs, education. Similar to Main Street America.

The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.

It's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other.

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.

Woodman spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me And I'll protect it now.

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more.

You'll notice my eyes have sort of glazed over.

But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.

Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.

I've made apologies to people I needed to, but I can't apologise to people I don't know for things they don't understand.