A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.

To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

A man is measured by the depths of his commitments.

Thank God for all of your short comings because it gives the people who don’t belong in your life something to hang their insecurities on as they drift away in a cloud of delusional perfection.

Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.

The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

In the future, all religions will sink, only God will remain stand still! The untruth can survive only for a while and then it sinks!

(Talon pulled another beignet from the sack and held it up for her to eat.) That stuff is hazardous to your health. (Sunshine) Baby, life is hazardous to your health. (Talon)