When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, is wealthy. That wealth is the wealth of time.

No point in living a life less ordinary if you don't know what the other side looks like.

The worth of a gift lies as much in the way it is offered as in its intrinsic value.

The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money.

For me, the walk of the character is always the first part that I must define for myself.

Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.

I avoid looking in the mirror.

We don't have rights until we claim them.

I think of reading as like a medicine cabinet.

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.