We dont know Gods plan, but we do know were pretty blessed and God expects us to do something with that.

The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.

I just think that humans were created to look upward

I don't believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. It should be a quiet, private thing.

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

The image I gravitate towards are spunky women, women who talk back.

At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.

We understand more than we know.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.

Eating a slice of white bread is like eating pure sugar.

The most precious love is often the kind that isn't returned, and that is given freely.

...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.

Nobody should be entirely defined by one thing

Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.

The rise of the ecologist almost exactly parallels the decline of the naturalist.

Our need to knock celebrities is...Twisted: it's deep in the mid-brain below the survival instinct. That lust to see a downfall. It's animalistic.