After all, what is ''a man'' nowadays? Somebody who stands alone, independent of all ties.

Being shameless in thinking, then talking, about male friendship because it is important. Make room for friendship in your life. Make a federal case out of it.

Our society seems to say that a real man needs and wants nobody.

Go to church and get directions so you won’t get lost.

No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery.

One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.

If you’re an alcoholic or a drug addict, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we’re lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.

Jane Austin was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete and rather insensible (not senseless) woman. If this is heresy, I cannot help it.

Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.

Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.

Of course I should love to throw a toothbrush into a bag, and just go, quite vaguely, without any plans or even a real destination. It is the Wanderlust.

I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.