I don't think there is anything good about fame. 'Tables in restaurants.' People say that but, then again, why don't you just call the day before? Or go eat somewhere else?

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.

maybe someday, you will look back and smile because it was all worth it

I was only able to move forward once I let go of my fear of leaving him behind.

Deep in Decemberit's nice to remember without a hurt the heart is hollow.

Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't a lot to be observed at desk level.

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer - His grace sufficient, His promise unchangeable.

Status symbols are poor excuses for values.

When you love something you just don't want to stop talking about it.

Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk.

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.