The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we now know that it is absolutely passed through bodily fluids.

I get a lot of independent films from people who are starting out.

I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.

The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.

Oftentimes when kids are left with their grandparents they're not agile enough to keep up with all of the things that they're going through.

People see a lot of huge stuff on Broadway, but there's always Off-Broadway energy and also shows that you can work in.

I still have to audition for most things.

A wise person is the one who knows what he knows and what he does not know.

When you find your passion, turn a deaf ear to the naysayers and follow your dreams.

The idea that fast reading is good reading is a twentieth-century weed, springing out of the stony farmland cultivated by the computer manufacturers.

Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.

Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

Joy is the vital air of the soul.

Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others.

It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.