I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't.

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.

Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.

Hurt. Enough to want to make someone else hurt too.

If you're not content with the small things, then you won't be content with the big things.

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

I can deal with all the pangs of having to find money in 20 different places because you don't really reap the whirlwind with this cutting-edge music.

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.

I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

On one side the government, the other side the mob.