How do you make love to someone when you know they’ll be gone forever the next day? How do you spend the last few hours with someone when you know there will never beanything after that?

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.

I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper paintings, Springsteen concerts.

I have been very, very consistent. But at the same time I kept kind of hitting my head on the ceiling and I couldn't break through.

I am the happiest man alive and I am happy for myself, for my family and for my country.

To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.

On the new earth heaven we will have perfect bodies, resistant to any ailment. Our new bodies will continue on forever, without missing a beat.

It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.

To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.