I think "destiny" is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.

I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.

Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Part of falling in love with someone is actually falling in love with yourself.

Pessimism is my default setting.

The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less.

It matters not how you play the game, So long as you never lose.

Did you really invent the computer, or am I being pranked right now?