It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Under the seams runs the pain.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

The heat of midnight tears will bring you to God.

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

To those who have separated themselves from the Church, I say, my dear friends, there is yet a place for you here.

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

Warrantless wiretapping is an impeachable offense. It couldn't be any clearer.

I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.

A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy.

And so we smile on, Feeding the truths we share With a union of our souls, Cathedral slaves of our passion Which builds beauty amongst chaos.

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.