In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

It's a lot easier to write about people when you're not living with them!

We're all human beings with bodily needs living within a system. We don't need to prove that we're not a part of the fabric of the culture in order to want to change it.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

Sometimes one has to know something many times over. Sometimes one forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets again.

After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.

102. After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.

Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.

It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.

Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.

There is no limit to what you can do.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

Problems are invitations. They allow us to have encounters and experiences that enable us to discover who God is for us.

...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

For me, playing a vampire isn't about the fact that they're a vampire, it's about who they are specifically.

Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, And every vector dreams of matrices. Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: It whispers of a more ergodic zone.

I don't have much desire to move to LA much yet. I don't think you can expect it any time soon, but who knows what can happen in the future.