I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

The past is what you take with you.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

A new you can still emerge from the old you.

I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.

I dont want to be labeled one thing. My main thing I care about is being able to create the things I want to do with my friends, whatever platform that is.

Very dangerous things, theories.

If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

We're up at almost seven billion people on the planet and most of that growth has been in the developing world.

It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.

I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do.