One of the great things going on right now is social media and you get a real sense, immediately, about what people are feeling and thinking.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.

If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.

If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.

We can’t really explain what the goal of mentoring is, until we understand what the church is for.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

Life is too short not to experiment.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.

Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.

Just to assassinate Michael Brown's character is wrong.