We're a leader sure, but still a member of the global community. And that's true and important and when America acts like its worst self on the global stage is when we forget that.

The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.

I love the bullshit morning shows. They're so stupid but I love them.

Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.

British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond."

Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story.

Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age... because "everything is global, man!"

I have found the more fantastic the setting, the more truthful the confessions.

Only with a leafcan I talk of the forest,

We must laugh before we are happy for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

Maybe deep down inside we were all still in our formative years. Maybe it was never too late for any of us to change.

Becoming integrated and whole is the spiritual path. The body is your vehicle. Your job is to learn about yourself from your experiences and change yourself. This is spiritual growth.

Love your work, then you will find pleasure in mastering it.

Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything.

I had my family before I played football.

I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.