I'm an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand the way I live.

I could not see beauty until I held hands with chaos in silence.

You can't compare me with others, I am the most different.

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

I don't drive. I live in L.A., but I take the bus. I know, I'm weird!

(Gray) Davis said yesterday that he is going to fight like a Bengal tiger, which I believe is also an endangered species.

When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

Some people always assume that if you mention a problem, you caused it.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.