I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that's subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

I don't believe in karma.

At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.

When you invest your life, you don’t lose it.

Mary praise the rosary for my broken mind.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

With eyes Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd. Imparadised in one another's arms. With thee conversing I forget all time. And feel that I am happier than I know.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.

The Ahmadinejads of the world, the bin Ladens of the world, will not change their ways, regardless of how hard we try to explain to them that peace begins with them.