Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.

Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

If you say a word often enough it becomes you.

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.