Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum.

It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking

This story in my head is too hot to touch. I grabbed it anyway.

She needs to make one phone call, and she wishes she could make it into her past. Into last year. Or two years ago.

Peter and Jessie were like Romeo and Juliet. Have you ever seen that old movie? Starring Leonardo Dicaprio?

Never feel like you need to visit him, ever?" "I see him every morning in the mirror. I think of him as the ghost version of me. And who needs to visit your own ghost?

Success is not achieved in a vacuum: the people you spend most of your time with and the voices you allow to influence your thoughts play a significant part in your success or lack of it.

Seeds do not grow without soil

... "The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world, " says an old Buddhist teaching. In other words: Get used to it.

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.

I am cursed with computers something always goes wrong.

But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.

All business begins with the public permission and exists by public approval

I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.

I would love to write and produce. I feel as if as an actor I'm just a small part you have to multi-task to survive in the entertainment industry.

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding.