Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.

I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.

A wacky, trendy outfit on a guy over 40 indicates he's got big issues.

Beware the man who doesn't ask you any questions about yourself on your first date.

Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.

No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.

A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!.

You just never know when it might be cookie time. And, that is what the dogs have taught me.

My goal was always getting my work out in the world, and in many ways, I feel like the luckiest person alive.

The day is divided into two important sections: Mealtimes and everything else.

Look!" said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, "Someone who cares!

... You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance I found out in jail.

Without passion everything lame in this life.

Over-the-counter ‪‎drug‬ ‪‎abuse‬ or addiction was a problem that I observed at Mauna Kea

Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.

I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition.

Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. For everyone.

Music is not disposable, people. We can twist it, sample it, mash it and experience it in endless ways. Open up.

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose language you happen to be in or whose century you happen to be in.