When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.

I don't need a reason to kill myself-I need a reason not to.

I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.

You know, you really do choose your existence in a way.

I just don't plan things. I live a month at a time.

For me, something dangerous would be playing thebabe in a huge studio film. That would be terrifying because I'dstink... I want to explore human beings on as deep a level as I can.

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.

Even if the role is very far away from me, to try and make it as nakedly me as possible is an intriguing notion.

It usually takes about two and a half weeks after you're done filming where you kind of return to yourself again.

I don't really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don't.

I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.

Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew…

The pain of an unpublished manuscript is akin to the trauma of bearing an unborn.

Something must be birth out of whatever He has given you.

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.

And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.

What we are seeking to do is not melt the map of America. We are seeking to melt the self, the solid form that we consider ourselves to be.

I'm creating songs. I do it most of the time, in the car or in the house.

Make us enemies of every people on earth, but save us from civil war.

I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon and sing to their baby in the womb.