The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich.

We don't even know if we're in this room. We could be in a turtle's dream in outer space.

The choices we make, dictate the lives we lead.

The whole point of love is to put someone else’s needs above your own.

A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean.

Christmas is a good excuse to eat everything.

We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

I don’t look ahead. I’m right here with you. It’s a good way to be.

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive.

How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!

Evil alone has oil for every wheel.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

The Muslim is as much an Indian as I am and of the same blood.

Do exactly the opposite of what the sheep are doing in order to become the Shepherd.

There are some battles, no matter how much you don’t want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are worth giving your life for.

The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed cleanthrough her body as if she were made of water. HISSS!