During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it.

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.