My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

Trying something different won't ensure that you would be liked by everyone. Still.. Go on..

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.

The studio and road both have their charms. The studio allows me to be a mad scientist and the tour lets me feel like James Bond.

A real man isn't somebody who takes advantage of a young girl but who treats her with respect.

If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.

Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel.

True Christian love is not derived from things without, but floweth from the heart, as from a spring.

Sanctification makes us holy and destroys the breed of sin, the love of sin and carnality. It makes us pure and whiter than snow. Bless His holy name!

No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.