If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.

We are all constantly being refined by fire and smoothed over by grace.

Wherever there are wild animals in the world, there is always an opportunity for caring, compassion and kindness.

In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.

Your inner knowing is your only true compass.

A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.

I've seen so many horrible and awful results and consequences of people practicing alcoholism. It's murder, I've seen that. I've seen a lot of suicides, a lot of strange sins.

Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it's increasingly girls, not boys, who don't know how to read.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.