Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love that's essential.

I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.

In revision, your imagination becomes deeply engaged with your material. It's when you come to know your characters and begin to perceive their motivations and values.

A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.

Drug programs began to turn their attention and money away from prevention and into maintenance. Methadone was cheaper than social workers, I suppose.

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.

You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.

Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.

The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.

I feel like this is a horror story. That's how scared I am right now."Don't be scared.""That doesn't help.

All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.

My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.

Texas is dicktown. No basement in the alamo. I didnt capitalize that on purpose.

As you make a prototype, assume you are right and everyone else is wrong. When you share your prototype, assume you are wrong and everyone else is right.

We deserve elections we can trust.

Change yourself - you are in control.

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by something else.

You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but its true.