I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

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.

We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.

Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.

I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.

Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

One of the things I tell people in my seminars is to hang out with positive, nurturing people. You become like who you hang out with.

Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition.

Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.

One key to entrepreneurial success is to get a great group of people around you who believe in your idea.