There are all kinds of ways to be in the world. And no matter what has happened to us, or what we have been told, or what we have believed, we get to choose our way.

Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him, he liked to say.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

If you put fences around people, you get sheep.

Joy is a choice, not an outcome.

When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.

When one heart opens to another heart, it usually results in love.

I've spent several years now with my head down.