The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it.

Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.