What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

The day hope shall die, perplexity shall kill so many people. In so far as hope is alive, keep hoping!

I have cultivated my hysteria with joy and terror.

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.

This Reese's Chevrolet was downright awesome.

In death as in life, we stand together, always a family, always a team. The brotherhood never dies.

Sage is cleansing and sacred.

The desire to be a good father is really innate. There aren't a lot of movies that depict that relationship because men, we have to pretend that we're not that emotional about it.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.