There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

I found my voice in books.

He cannot ravish. He can only woo.

I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.

It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want.

I feel like a real cowboy! Yippi Ki Yay!

You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

Number is the within of all things.

You are whole body, whole mind, whole spirit, all the time. When you experience all of you at once, anything is possible.

I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage.