I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.

May I search it?" she asked. "We screen for weapons."I stared at her, always a risky thing to do to a vampire. "Of course not. I have no weapons.

God wants to use you in spite of your weaknesses. Of God chose to use perfect people only, He’d have no one to use

Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

There is nothing more meaningful than being true to yourself and finding your own voice. Follow your heart and don't let anyone discourage you.

Never give up hope, spring will come.

What else is nature but God?

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.