I made three works about men in my life. But I had much more than three men. I never wrote about them.

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.

At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.

In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.

I went to Istanbul. I spoke to blind people, most of whom had lost their sight suddenly. I asked them to describe the last thing they saw.

I know how I live my life. I have a little magnet brain that attracts the kind of things that obsess me.

I didn't go to the North Pole to do something about my mother. I was invited to the North Pole and I realized it was impossible to go there without thinking about her.

God is trying to tell us that there is a shift taking place in the body of Christ especially in the way we do church

He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.

In my first stand-up acts there wasn't material even. You know, I'd go on stage and cry and read a Dear John letter or gut fish on stage. I could be odd - and it's what interested me as a comedian.

Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run.

There are a few people who genuinely see the best in everyone.