When we label human BEINGS and flatten them to just a splashy HEADLINE, we LOSE decency and the truth.

Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. MERELY THINK, 'Here is a little SQUARE of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it GIVES you your own impression of the scene before you.

I try to watch a MOVIE a day, if not more, and through movies, I LEARNED about so many different political themes I hadn't been INTERESTED in and cultural THINGS I hadn't been aware of and economic factors I hadn't thought about.

I swear I will do EVERYTHING in my POWER to CHANGE the SITUATION in Tibet where human rights are being suppressed. Tibet seeks freedom and democracy and we agree on those values.

Politics: A strife of INTERESTS masquerading as a CONTEST of PRINCIPLES. The CONDUCT of public affairs for private advantage.

With Biggie, I thought his flow and his swag was better than Tupac's, but I thought Tupac's PASSION and ABILITY to relate to the average person was better than Biggie, and I thought Nas was kind of LIKE both, with a lot substance GOING but a lot of swag.

A MAN can SUCCEED at ALMOST ANYTHING for which he has unlimited ENTHUSIASM.

For that story, I TOOK as my subject a YOUNG woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of VISITS. I never saw her having any health PROBLEMS - but I knew she wanted to be MARRIED.

I used to WORK with mentally disabled people when I was 18 or 19, changing DIAPERS and catheters. I was working, like, 16 hour night SHIFTS, having to distribute meds and go capture people who would break out of the house. SOMETIMES they'd have seizures, and we'd have to RUSH them to the hospital. That was an interesting time, very humbling.