Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

Art is communication.

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grade of God.

Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that "the people" do no want freedom.

To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.

We are not defined by the things we accumulate, but by the memories we impart.

.. I suffered with you. I hurt with you. I bled with you -not only because we're bonded, but because the love I have for you." ~ Eric Northman in Dead in The Family.

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.

I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.

I think the main thing I would say is, don't settle. Don't settle for something that's not great.

Has anyone asked Donald Trump recently like how exactly does his current position differ from [Marco] Rubio's or even Jeb Bush's?

I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.

Looking back - I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.