I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in. If you challenge your own, you won't be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others. You'll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.