I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

We do not need to teach our children how to fight. We need to teach our children the miraculousness and transientness of life.

I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.

Well, I hate to tell youbut if you have a flu shot for more than five years in a row, there's ten times the likelihood that you'll get Alzheimer's disease.

I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.

Talents used are talents multiplied.

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993.

I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters are likeable.

Beauty, the smile of God, Music, His voice.

E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream thy flowing wounds supply, redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die.