The older I get, the happier I am with the way my career has gone. Although, in many ways, it's been through no design of my own.

It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.

It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real.

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

A war on Al-Qaeda could have been won with a decisive military strike in Tora Bora during December 2001, but American fighters at Tora Bora were refused requests for more forces when they trapped Al-Qaeda there; the Pentagon was busy husbanding resources for the Iraqi invasion.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart's blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.