Right here, right now, God has placed you to do what you do best. Go all the way.

Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.

You listen to people that love you and you listen to people that you trust. Most of all, you listen to yourself.

Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?

I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.

That's what character is, it's in the trying.

Success is not a goal, it's a byproduct.

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.

I don't think that any law enforcement got in trouble for the event in Eugene where police sprayed the tree-sitters who were protesting the cutting of the trees for the parking garage.

The public is a hibernating bear, hard to awaken and fond of honey.

There is a way to touch the angels of the skies: Gaining the trust of birds!

I love Malcolm Lee and jumped on the opportunity to work with him as a director.

My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children.