You couldn't be a racist and live in L.A.; you'd be exhausted.

Christmas always sucked when I was a kid because I believed in Santa Claus. Unfortunately, so did my parents. So I never got anything.

I went out in my yard and saw a snake, so I got really scared, and I came back inside to get a shovel, and beat the hell out of that snake. Then I didn't have cable for a week.

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

Over the past two hundred years philosophy has shaken off Christian faith. It has not given up Christianity's cardinal error -the belief that humans are radically different from all other animals.

When your sky is covered with the clouds of sadness, smile like the sun and paint your own rainbow.

I believe that the ability to laugh at oneself is fundamental to the resiliency of the human spirit.

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

The adults were completely wrong.

It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.

Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.

Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to the reason the patient deserved this.

Come up, April, though the valley, / In your robes of beauty drest, / Come and wake your flowery children / From their wintry beds of rest.