God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces.

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.'That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.

We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.

Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

I have a plan-to go mad.

In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics.

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.