Sometimes experience trumps assumption.

[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are, she's going to end up looking like me.

It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention

I'm as American as Chevrolet.