Renaissance philosophers often said that it is the soul that makes us human. We can turn that idea round and note that it is when we are most human that we have greatest access to the soul.

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed

It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence, transform our lives, and give us necessary complexity and depth.

Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.

Leadership can change its mind leadership can open its eye. Leadership can even be replaced.

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Love should have no alternatives; love should be the sole reason for loving; love should spring of itself.

You’re a dead man,” Kyle said. “Warren doesn’t take kindly to people who hurt me.

Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.

I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.

Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.