My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.

I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.

I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that.

I'm not thrilled that I have a tramp stamp. When you see people bend over in their really low-cut jeans, I'm like, 'Oh... that's what I have.

Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.

I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.

If you are a good leader, you are a good listener.

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

There is a potential heroine in every woman.

Are you a thinker, a doer, or a clutch player? The better you are, the greater potential for influence you will have with your people.

The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.

Prayer is more than thoughts and feelings expressed in words. It is the opening of mind and heart - our whole being to God our Abba Father. It is Divine Union.

Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.

Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.

[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]