I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.

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.

The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.

Those who have become vitarag (free from all worldly attachments), will have no intent of ownership (maliki bhav).

She glanced outside at the sky, filled with clouds and smog. All the pollution, all that hell—even the stars didn’t stand a chance.

I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6, 000 others were present for the music.

I get a lot of fashion gifts, but rarely do I get something that's just fun.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.

I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.