My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.

Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!

“Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.

Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.

One of the things that struck me as unique about Hollywood is that I never had bad meetings. There were all enthusiastic, but meaninglessly enthusiastic.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

I was an infinitely hot and dense dot.

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

It's in great joy that we grasp truth.

I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

You fell asleep and a monster crawled from out of my head and found its way under my bed

Victory begins when we are willing to run by faith, trusting that he will lead the way.

.....Her eyebrows are the living example of nature.

Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying.

You are redeemed and you are also victorious, over your sins in Jesus.

This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.

It would be important for someone to understand how much our music means to us. Our music comes first right now and hopefully for ever.

Some cities are really boring and straight.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.