I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player.

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

I've written quite a few things, but I've put it on hold for now to see how everything fits together. Then I'll approach it and write specifically to see how the pieces fit in the puzzle.

I'm not trying to recapture anything. It's really about moving forward. I don't have much reverence for what I've done in the past.

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

The light was different here in California.

It’s funny how books can change you. You open up a book and one minute you are who you’ve always been, then you read some random passage and you become someone else.

Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures.

Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better.

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

When I played doctor I played to win.

I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.