Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.

The joy of juxtaposition is endless.

I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.

Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.

When a Dragon, an Elf, and a Human walk into a bar, the Human is always going to be the punch line.

I fall short of her standards. She made me buy cat food that hasn't been tested on animals. My cats took one bite of it, spit it out, and yelled, "Did no one test this?

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

This impure world that we presently experience exists only in relation to our impure mind.

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

I have sold my soul. I would sell my soul, if I could have it all.

We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.

You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.

"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."