At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being.

Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.

True lovers are as rare as true rebels.

I am as much what I am because of what I still don't have as I am because of what I have had and what I might still have one day.

Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots.

Quotes are a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking.

Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.

The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.

One of the liberating things about having a blog is the total vision it allows.

Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern.

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

By not stepping into your greatness, you are letting down everyone around you whom you can inspire, touch, or influence.

...and I know -I just know- you can remind me what it feels like to have someone look at me and love me with wanting me to be something else.

I would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their achievement. And as adults, you have to settle for the respect and admiration of your peers.

Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don’t work out.

I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can't have that in public life.

And I am too knowledgeable now to hurt people imprecisely

I hope by the time I'm 30 to have a husband and maybe a baby.

You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.