The best things aren't perfectly constructed. They aren't illusions. they aren't larger than life. They are life.

Dignity is overrated. You know what trumps dignity? Kissing.

Don't you want to kiss me?' she asks.She smiles just a little, a hopeful, sweet smile, but buried in it is that confidence that slays me.

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.

A few years after working on Mauna Kea, I discovered that I had radiation sickness

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.

Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere.

We disjoint the mind like the body.

Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions.

Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.