I also feel like I've learned over the years what is not important, and that is also great: to know what is pointless to spend your energy on, to be more specific.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

We can't just sit on our asses and not live our lives while we're trying to expose a corrupt government.

It's never to late to do nothing at all.

Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose?

The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.

Don't just make money, make a difference.

The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

We are the visitors in the lives of others; we visit them and we disappear!

Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.