Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance.

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

Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you.

Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

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.