I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can't. And time passing is one thing that can't be undone. Come this far, and you can't go back.

Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows.

When you get so that you can't see, you come to it gradually. And if you didn't come by it gradually, I guess you'd just kill yourself when you couldn't see.

The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be

The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty.

I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.

Good jobs look a lot like kids playing and adults working.

I'm the biggest slob in the world. My apartment is a mess.

God is an inexhaustible source of all we need. Our unbelief is discovered in how little we avail ourselves of this infinite fountain

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.