I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

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.

The moon in her chariot of pearl

If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been a struggle between my conception of myself and the world versus reality.

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.

Lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless. And lonely is healing if you make it.

The presence of an active, energetic, successful man, or set of men, in a place, will permeate the place with positive vibrations that will stimulate all who abide there.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.