It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy.

A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.

Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.

I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.

The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.

We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.

Sometimes it is not right to wait for the right train. Take any train instead of rotting at the station! In other words, be realistic!

But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.

We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.

No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.

Tried to put shame in my game to make a name, I'mma put it on a bullet...put it in your brain.

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.