It is my belief that people who speak of high school with a sugary fondness are bluffing away early-onset Alzheimer's.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

Your ego is laughing at you behind your back.

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day.

I have worked with Tarell Alvin McCraney, who is the play Moonlight is based on. He's a company member at Steppenwolf. I have done a could of his plays here.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.

God shows us he loves us by giving us access to himself.

You are someone else's miracle! God is setting up divine appointments and it is our job to keep them

When congress is in session no American is safe.

Fire the doubters out of your life.

Perhaps many of us do not like it where we are in the universe now, but we can all be certain that we got where we are -our own decisions to expand in love or withdraw from it.