Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

We learn from history that we don't learn from history!

...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.

I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Don't say you're going to stop eating red meat when you like red meat.

My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.

I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything.

The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.