Unless you are silent, you will notknow your urgent heart, how it beatsbetween the thin skin of yes and no.

Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life.

Memory, when it juts, retreats, recovers, shows us how to hold the darkness, how to breathe.

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music...to understand when I'm conducting the Schönberg Variations.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.

If I walk with the world, I can't walk with God.

If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?

Since Democrats vs. Republicans has been obliterated, no real difference between parties.

I go back so far I'm in front of me.

Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true.

A politician... one that would circumvent God.