Deep” to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.

In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.

Ever since her diagnosis, she’s been fading like a light bulb with cancer’s hand on the rotary dimmer.

It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.

Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery?

No I don't get scared when returning kicks or worry about getting hurt. I have been doing this since childhood so I am used to it.

What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

Private schools have been attacking public schools and really I was just a pawn in their game. I speak at schools of all ages on a regular basis.

The body is solid material wrapped around the breath

I love Richard Pryor. I love him to death.

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.