Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.

No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later he may be with his real girlfriend.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

The language for attaining Liberation [moksha] is beyond duality. The language for worldly life is with duality.

One's freedom is one's love and one's love is one's undoing, it's all in the dictionary...

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription.

There are different flavours of sexiness.

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.