The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

We read to know that we are not alone.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

I am not afraid to die

The animals haven't split apart into what they think and what they feel. They are whole and trust in their instincts.

Every day you face two important decisions: what effect you want your speech and actions to have on the world around you, and what impressions and vibrations you want to be receptive to.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

You have to respect all your competitors.

at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.

I couldn't sleep knowing I was going to leave my Miami. It's always going to be my home, but it's not the same.

when God said "let there be light" I turned it the f-k off.

People think about, when you sell a million records, "Oh. You must be buying Ferrari's and living in mansions." It was never really like that.

Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.