I'm not real good at romance.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.

Maybe heaven was innocence, limbo was ignorance, and hell was fiery illumination.

When time stops, life starts.

Thank God for imminent doomsday.

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

Beauty is cruel, cruelty is beautiful.

You're trying to dramatize events to tell a story most effectively. That doesn't mean the events aren't true, it just means you're making them as dramatic as you possibly can.

In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.

If you look at a lot of traditional societies, they're all organized along what we might call anarchist guidelines, but it's not like the Zapatistas were reading European social theory.

The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.