The only interesting ideas are heresies

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.

The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others.

I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.

When men talk of a little hell it's because they think they have only a little sin and believe in a little Savior.

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

I play for the United States of America!

Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.

I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.

At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.