I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to love yourself.'

My ambition was to live like music.

Of course there’s something there; unfortunately, there’s always something ‘there.’ Something you will one day be sorry you saw.

The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible.

You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot give them spirit or soul if it's not there.

What are you thinking?” She asks. -That you are beautiful. That not everyone could see it. I almost became the kind of person who could not.

Whenever young writers ask me for advice, I always say you have to be able to take a lot of rejection because, unless you're very lucky, that's what's going to happen.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

I think people hold back all kinds of things. And in a way, they just want to be nice. They want to be civil.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

Partly, I'm worried that no one is saying anything because they are afraid of being seen as politically correct.

Faith is the only belief which remains alive between heaven and hell.

Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

I don't see why you reporters keep confusing Brooks (Robinson) and me. Can't you see that we wear different numbers.

Most Swiss banks do have a whistleblower program, but they use it to punish those who avail themselves of it.

Education in a deepest sense has always been about doing rather than about knowing.

No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.

Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.