True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.

Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.

We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away.

Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.

I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.

If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.

Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.

Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.

Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it.

A scolded mouse knows no grievance.

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

I believe the difficulty that lies in growth, is the struggle of letting go of all you know to learn about the unknown. When in all actuality the unknown that you're learning about is yourself.

The union of lakes - the union of lands - The union of States none can sever - The union of hearts - the union of hands - And the flag of our union for ever!

Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want them to do.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

For some reason, people always assign high cheekbones to some ethnicity, but apparently by their regards, everybody on earth has high cheekbones. So I don't know if that matters.

I can be stressed, or tired, and I can go into a meditation and it all just flows off of me. I'll come out of it refreshed and centered and that's how I'll feel and it'll carry through the day.

What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?

Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.