The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

A woman's got as much right -and more cause - to get drunk than any man

Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut.

There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.

You need someone to love you while you are looking for someone to love.

I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect

I’m not afraid of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.

Nothing passes. Everything stays with you. Everything makes it’s mark.

My usual self is a very unusual self.

[On England:] In this country there are only two seasons, winter and winter.

Christ’s second coming reminds us that ultimately our hope is not in this world and its attempts to solve its problems, but in Christ’s promise to establish His perfect rule over all the earth.

Perfectionism is not the path that leads us to our gifts and to our sense of purpose

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

The difference between a movie and a play is that the production you end up with is the production. If a movie that I spent time on turns out to be crap, it's never going to be made again.

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner.

Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.

Our weavings in the cosmic web are not self-contained. Rather, they are part of the design of our collective humanity.

I never make a prediction that can be proved wrong within 24 hours.