I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child.

I'm Bipolar with PTSD there's no shortage of pain inside of me

My definition for GOD that works for me is “Pure Energy, Supreme Consciousness.” The highest resolution of pure energy we use is the sensation we call “love.

Love” is only a one syllable word but it’s the most powerful one mankind’s ever heard.

Every day in life we’re told who this is and who that is. But when we sit we’re all the same when we remove our hat.

99 % of the reason a person doesn't do something are 100% correct

I heard this when I was in the Air Force: “There’s never enough time to do the job right, but always enough time to do it over.

When it comes to most true bipolars, consider this thought: Genius by birth, bipolar by design.

Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I’m not ashamed of my illness. I’ve been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too.

Many people say that psychiatrists just want to push drugs. Well I seriously have to say, without medication, I’d be locked up in a VA hospital somewhere.

The best way to overcome depression is to work it to death. Whether it be your body or your mind, just be active and some relief you’ll find.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of course you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.

The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

Beware of the flight of Blessings, For nothing that runs away is returned.

Brokenness is God’s requirement for maximum usefulness.

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

If you don't take your clothes seriously, why should your viewers take you seriously?

We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.

If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.