"Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you."

"The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are."

"My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way."

"When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves."

"The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee."

"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."

"To walk the path of enlightenment means authenticity is the rarest and most beautiful asset."

"To build a legacy, one must accept that authenticity is the rarest and most beautiful asset."