A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.

My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens... We roamed the countryside.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

People who are seriously damaged by sudden fame and notoriety have, in my experience, very low esteem at the root of their being.

I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

While I tend to favor styles that are glamorous, old Hollywood by night and very sleek and tailored during the day, I'm mindful of the fact that I'm 27 years old and try not to make that feel dowdy or old.

'True Blood' is amazing. I have to give a shout out to 'Melrose Place' because I do watch. I love 'Entourage.' One of my favorite shows back in the day was 'Friday Night Lights.'

I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.

With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!'

On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.

When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A middle-aged American woman will head over, and I think, 'Game of Thrones.' Turns out it's 'The Tudors' or 'Elementary' or 'The Hunger Games.' It's always a surprise.

So we had life, death, illness, everything - every emotional involvement we had, we experienced. And I think that made what we had to do on stage, stronger. We got very much involved in what we were doing.

Riding a race bike is an art a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them.

Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.

I've boxed many people in their own backyard plenty of times - in China, I boxed a Chinese girl in the final of the world championships, and I've boxed Russians before in their home nation as well.

The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As a result, there is nothing online that is both great in quality and small in scale. Amazon wasn't originally a better bookstore than the small shops we mourn, but it is now.

We have to let young people know that we care about them and their future. I want to involve them to a level where they become the leaders and the advocates because, right now, a lot of these young people don't believe they have an advocate.

I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.

My favorite quarterback is Donovan McNabb. I think he's a complete quarterback. I love the way he can scramble and throw on the run. He can do it all. He can control a game.

My fans have always loved my metaphors.

I was just on Broadway for four months, and the amount of fan mail that arrived at the theater was just overwhelming. I mean, I had no idea! I guess people suddenly had access to me and knew where to find me, so they got me there, and I was amazed.