What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? The answer is always creativity; the answer is always art.

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.

[…] but she cannot make him eat, like you.

In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.

The intelligent desire self-control

A good expository paper will benefit far more people than most research papers. A good text is worth a thousand of the usual trifles that appear in research journals.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

Men aren't as strong and capable as we are. We're machines.

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.

Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.