There is no direct evidence, so how could you ask me to believe in God.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Perspective is a gift nowadays.

Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and lie on the bed the way I used to. Please take me home.

I was for some time quite beside myself and could not believe that Providence could have required the presence of this indispensable man in the other world so soon.

Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

I definitely have worked trying to create music that inspires girls to feel confident and strong, and feel like they can do anything.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.