When I took my poetry class in school. I read an e. e. cummings poem. I don’t mind eels except how they feels and maybe as meals. I knew there was hope for me.

Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith." (Br. Cadfael)

Aggression like this demanded slinging the first punch in a bar brawl, firing rounds at a range, or setting a car on fire.

It’s just that I coulda swore you had sung me a love song back there and that you meant it but I guess sometimes people just chew with their mouth open

I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to kind of navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.

if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

We've made tremendous strides and changes in the City of New York since 1994.

At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness.

Partisanship may be King in Washington - but the rest of us don't have to pay tribute.

Every audition, I still get nervous. I still get sweaty palms. I don't think that ever goes away. You just get accustomed to it.