I'd rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else.
I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.
When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.
My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.
Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.
Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.
At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.
It [the Brady Bill] is not a panacea. It's not going to stop crimes of passion or drug-related crime.
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.
Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.