I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm not saying that I've done a brilliant job with that. But I've done my best.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid.""Any will do, " the rabbi replied in Provençal."Splendid. Latin it is, " said Pope Clement.

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

Your brain is waiting for you to give it direction.

Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

I mean I've always been a big dude.

Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.

I download music just like anybody else, but it's a weird relationship when you're a musician.

I love being able to be the artist of the whole picture, as opposed to just one of the brushes.