You only live once. Maybe twice.

I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Germany is dictating its policy in Europe

There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.

I hate doing features because rappers take forever to get you their verses.

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

Alan Rickman told me to do a play, so I did. Because when Alan Rickman tells you do something, you go and do it.

I had to cope with attitudes that were not supportive all along. I mean, you still have that.

Everybody has an opportunity to play a role, a playmaking role, so it makes it harder to coach. It takes a little more time.

The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.