When you cried, I learned what helplessness tastes like. Because all I could do was swallow.

Does he give you zings in your things?

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

People are always surprised that I have a funny side because I'm usually so intense, strong and dramatic. But, I'd love to do something really, really silly and funny.

Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

Can you spare some change? is never a good pick up line.

All change may not be progress, but all progress is the result of change

The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.