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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about Broadway. The audiences are smart, they're educated. They go in ready and they're up for it, they're up for the party. It's a whole different atmosphere.

I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Leadership, leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.