One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.Scripps: No.Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.

I resolved to move just a little bit more slowly through the world, to look around myself with greater care, and to try to remain conscious of all that was going on around me at all times.

I don't always do what I should but I do what I gotta do.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.

The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

I would prefer just to be an actor for hire rather than struggling with something like Higher Ground, that I had a lot of emotion attached to.

Who knows how dead Lazarus was? Was Lazarus decomposing in a six-foot grave when Jesus resurrected him? No, he wasn't.

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.