Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

We must try to contribute joy to the world... I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.