I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

I have never been in a violent movie or television show.

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

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

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.