"If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to."

"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse."

"For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart."

"Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons."

"I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there."

"Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive."

"Knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating."