The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

Overnight I became a cottage industry.

You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.

True friends are always near, the Goddess said. Beneath the eyelids on a stormy night, around the bend in a wicked dream, hearkening to the future by the chimes of their companion’s call.

Close your eyes, and lo, they are opened! But never shall they close again.

Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.”“Not as old as I shall be, before I have finished with the universe.

Sometimes we must leave our true homes for something greater to come.

Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay.

People define their life by what they want versus what they have. People get fixated on something and they have to have it, even though that voice inside tells them it's not meant for them.

I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

My characters all start with rhythms and sounds. Once I hear the voice and get into the rhythm, the attitude and the physicality just come out on their own.

Plan for the worst, expect the best.

One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.

My friendship with the Hitch has always been perfectly cloudless. It is a love whose month is ever May.

When I'm working, I don't wear any makeup at all. Unless I am doing an event, I love to wear no makeup at all, which is hardly ever as I am working every day!

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

Action always beats inaction.