I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.

You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

Being able to ‘think out of the box’ presupposes you were able to think in it.

Reality itself is [made up of] chance processes linked to sets of rules - this is what drives the world, the universe, and just about anything a human being can imagine.

Fasting (is) for the maintainance and firmness of your sincerity.

Every culture to me - be it Asian, African, be it whatever - is a source of reference. I don't think I'm 'stealing' it or anything.

I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.

A job is not just a job. It’s who you are.

Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime.

I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.