Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

We cannot simply pray and then wait for God to do the rest.

Prayer means keeping company with God who is already present.

Even on the Serengeti, it ain't a barbecue if there ain't some kind of beer.

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.

There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.

The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

I drink to feel / I smoke to breathe / Just look what love / Has done to me

I met Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Kevin Bacon at Sundance. Steve Buscemi is pretty laid-back. I met Judy Greer in Vegas, and she was cool.

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

Success is like toilet paper, it only seems important when you don't have it.

God is an iron... and that's a hot one.