I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.

As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.

I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.

I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.

Bidden or unbidden, God is present.

Life isn't static, and sometimes, we don't realize the value of knowledge or even of people, until further down the track, when we're mature enough to truly understand.

Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system

The heart of a Christian, who believes and feels, cannot pass the hardships and deprivations of the poor without helping them.

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were.

All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.