As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.

Suffering will always be there. You'll always have the poor. You have to own your own progress. It is true that because of the economy and the fear factor the president [Barack Obama] is able to execute a lot of promises that it would be difficult to deliver it not for the fear factor. It's funny. He's delivering on what he promised and we call it fear.

The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.

Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.

Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.

The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

I don't want to appease everyone. It seems very difficult to be steadfast on truth and be a politician.