I have a face like the behind of an elephant.

They can't censor the gleam in my eye.

I have a face like the behind of an elephant.

My family wanted church to be a place where we all went together. My dad was always traveling, and my mom was always working. School is where I did Bible classes and studied God.

A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.

I never expected to make a lot of money from music.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put 'A Clockwork Orange' my way, and 'Catcher in the Rye.'

Gina Gershon was a year ahead of me in college.

The easiest place to get a natural harmonic on any string is at the 12th fret. All you do is lightly rest one of your left-hand fingers on a string directly above that fret and then pick it.

When you use the language of 'fact checking' to talk about a film, I think you're sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works. You don't fact check Monet's 'Water Lilies.' That's not what water lilies look like; that's what the sensation of experiencing water lilies feel like. That's the goal of the piece.

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

Awareness without emotion is a flame without fuel.

Im extremely open with my sexuality. I can be in love with a woman. I can be in love with a man.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

The best films come about through experimentation.

I sometimes laugh at the fact that people say I have good style.

Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak, to poke at rather than touch.

When I was a child, I wanted to... go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and explore. I wanted to go to the Lost World in South America - I was heartbroken to discover there were no dinosaurs; I still don't accept it.

Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

Evenings are the beautiful sweet spot between the harsh light of the day and the dead darkness of the night.

An actor tries to be versatile, to immerse himself in a different culture.

'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not.

I will not stop my blog.

We don't see ourselves as just a place where we come to worship but as a beacon and a bearer of the culture and a bearer of what makes us a people. But I like to say that this is not necessarily unique to us. It is really what America is all about.