If at first you don't succeed, try again.If you still don't succeed, blame someone else.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

I can act. I've been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don't nobody owe you nothing. You've go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don't go from M to Z.

Why should I be angry at someone when they are out dancing?

Derivative trading with mark-to-market accounting degenerates into mark-to-model. Two firms make a big derivative trade and the accountants on both sides show a large profit from the same trade.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

Take my word for it: More people will like you if you believe that people are good until proven bad.

I was in The Wire for three years, and I left at the highlight of that.

And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?

. . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.

God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.