I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the painter inside me.

The best trick I learned was when a priest came to me when I was an altar boy and said, "Always, when you make a mistake, pretend it's ritual." It's beautiful!

I really love country music, just this idea of three chords and the truth.

What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting way. In visual art it's about making you feel emotional, but it's more subtle.

I think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs.

I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.

I often really like to play with documenting my performances cinematically. Cinematic documentation is much more interesting than the performance itself.

(Sookie's Thoughts on Debbie Pelt) she had been cruel to Alcide, insulted me grievously, burned a hole in my favorite wrap and—oh—tried to kill me by proxy. Also, she had stupid hair.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.

Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble.

Cofounders will endure so much together that their relationship is often compared to a marriage.

Did you hear what I said? It was very profound.

You're broke, eh?" I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.