Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

You are every missing part of me.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

I've never been really great at trusting anybody, just because of the way I grew up.

Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.

Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.

The filmmakers I really love are the ones that let me look through their eyes for a while. They have an aesthetic and social point of view.

A real, healthy relationship is about empowerment and love and that should be standard - but it isn't.

Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.

The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.