Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

Survival is a four letter word.

To change is to be vulnerable. And to be vulnerable is to be alive.

Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.

Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.

A girl is a soul at sunrise.

I don't see what people get from hating other people unless it's a special thing I just ain't hip to.

Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.

Politics is a word spelled N-O-W.

babies ain't cute / hungry.

You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.

Some say ignorance is bliss, I say love is.

The soul of an artist cannot be muted indefinitely. It must either be expressed or it will consume the host.

It's hard for me to approach [a film] as a still image now that I know exactly what it takes to make a movie. I mean, I know what it takes to make a movie that lasts five minutes.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.

The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.