Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other God or the gods and with the human other the stranger.

For to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

When a dog barks at the moon then it is religion but when he barks at strangers it is patriotism!

I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance chaos to order confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast a house into a home a stranger into a friend.

Strangers are exciting their mystery never ends. But there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.