The hour on Sunday can be a time of wonder, a time of transformation, maybe even a time of awe.

To all what we have not tried, we would never wish to try if we knew that we would fail.

Severed and gone, so many years! And art thou still so dear to me, That throbbing heart and burning tears Can witness how I cling to thee?

I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.

Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.

I've never written a song about DNA or anything that I work on. But I just think that DIY aspect, and the creativity and the belonging and acceptance is what drew me in.

If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.

What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.