A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there.

The responsibility to nightmare is to wake up.

A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that sky seeking oxygen, gone into autopsy

I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.

Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence.

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

The righteous ones are always exhausting to have around.

I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don't.

Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.

The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted.

It's good to believe in yourself, but there are people out there who can make or break you.

Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence.

As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.

Nothing comes from doing nothing.