The fumes are killing us, and we wonder why things are going haywire.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

I don't believe in karma.

At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

The joy of reading is sacred pleasure.

We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe.

The last time I was this confused I was watching a Fassbinder film.

When asked, How do you write? I invariably answer, One word at a time.

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

Music has as many roles as people make it.

We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.

I just don't like to go out and deal with the real world. It's scary.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

Who is it can read a woman?