He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.

The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.

Love isn't all sparks and firecrackers. Sometimes it’s more subtle than that.

Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.

I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

The desire to know is natural to good men.

I'm still not sure I didn't die

Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes.

A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.