The Pentagon as a legitimate target? I actually don't have an opinion on that and it's important I not have an opinion on that as I sit here in my capacity right now.

It's a blip, not a catastrophe.

Young men list music as their focus and means of identity -- before sport, before TV, before cinema -- while women cite fashion as most important, with music an ambivalent second.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

All the past is not worth one today.

To this day people will say, "What do you think about doing Playboy?" I feel honored to be a part of that bit of history with Hugh Hefner. No regrets.

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.

Wakolda or The German Doctor is a very intimate story. It is the story of a teenage girl and the way she falls in love with a monster. It is the story of a hunt and of a seduction.

The next message you need is always right where you are.

You’re beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light at your miniature feet

I remember when Samuel Okwaraji died on the field, I was mute and I didn't even know what I was doing or what I was saying.