Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

To shy away from human extremes and human sensuality makes for bone-dry fiction. A world parched of our sexual releases and our tumultuous daily emotional lives is deeply impoverished. It is not lifelike, at least life as I remember living it.

Suddenly, all the giant Hollywood franchises are being driven by alternative filmmakers.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.

Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage.

Being a reporter and chasing down an assignment isn't an easy thing to do, especially when you're dealing with athletes that are so focused and trying to get their little game plan together to perform under adverse conditions... it's tough.

I particularly love Israel. I've had fantastic experiences there.

I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!

Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

A light turned on in a dark room is like receiving a message from God quickly, completely, and all at once.

Paper Moon didn't bring me love.

Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.