I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.

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.

Today and every day: I offer the universe my love I offer the universe my peace I offer the universe my beauty of hope I offer the universe my deepest gratitude for her hospitality and generosity

May the Father’s will be done in my life.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War, ' as it was called until 1939.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.

I'm going to fight as hard as I can to make sure people have the futures that they deserve here in America.

There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.