I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I see them sitting on a page.

I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.

I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

One lives but once in the world.

Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won't be ours

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

I don't consider myself a celebrity, and I don't consider myself a star.

The 60s had completely changed how people conceived of their lives and their habits and their identities.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

I think as a student I ended up liking so many different and conflicting things.