The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

I mean, of course, I love sci-fi and stuff like that, but I'm not, like, a comic book crazy guy.

In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family.

House rule number nine. No roach shall drink or eat out of the good cups in the kitchen. The plastic cups are in the pantry.

To forgive is not to forget, but rather to re-member whatever has been dismembered.

There are times, Sember, when I could believe your mother had a secret lover. Looking at you makes me wonder if it was one of my goats.

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

Personally, I don't pick books for how people think about me. I read books so I can learn.

I ran for Congress, just once.

I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line.

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.