Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.