Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why.

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

We are each the love of someone's life.

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.

When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?

It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.

It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.

I could smell something. Fear.I could taste it now.It tasted like blood in my mouth, and I could feel it slide through me and open me up when I saw him ...

Love is pure

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.

I just like to walk around New York, just put my iPod on and walk around.

I think when you are named Noah, you are destined for a certain way of life.

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.