...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies.

For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.

Reconciliation without truth is nothing but a smokescreen

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

Learning a language is not interesting than knowing how it works.

Perfection is real. It occurs when you find that other part of you, that other person, that when combined you become one, perfect being.

I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.

The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew of tobacco to explain it to me.

In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.