"My rule is: If you meet the weakest vessel, attack. If it is a vessel equal to yours, attack. And if it is stronger than yours, also attack."

“Like my father I, too, was born in Central America - Nebraska.”

“You don’t feel as real if you don’t see yourself reflected in the media […] There’s something very powerful about seeing yourself represented.”

“I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.”

“The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.”

“Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I'm very, very grateful; it's a fun job. It's a luxury.”

“All I know of morality I learned from football”

“I dare because I want no misunderstanding between us. I am everything you think I am, but I love your daughter, and what I love, I protect with all of the violence in me, which, as you've guessed, is considerable.”

“My buddies tell me that I should have waited. They say I'm missing a whole world of fun. But I am happy and I sing with pride. I like the Christian life.”