Love is just love, it can never be explained.

Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack.

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.