I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

It's a wonderful life if you can find it.

He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.

All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents.

It is tha action that we're taking NOWThat will determine our FUTURE lives.

Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

Keep it locked up inside Don't talk about it Talk about the weather Can't see the light

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.

Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.

The Art of Fulfillment is the ability to experience not only the thrill of the chase, but also the magic of the moment, the unbridled joy of feeling truly alive.