I love any kind of acting, so if I could focus on becoming the best actor I can strictly on my voice, I would love that.

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

They were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren't to benefit.

A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.

The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

I'm a blackstar. I'm a blackstar.

Without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.

At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.

We also need a fund that can say 'no'.

I think that my films are westerns only in their exterior aspects. Within them are some of my truths, which happily, I see, belong to lots of parts of the world. Not just America.

Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language