It’s not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn’t even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves.

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand.

All is as it should be.

I wiggle my eyebrows. 'Sorry, Evan, I can't make out with you wile the dog is aligning himself with a magnetic field.

Existence simply responds to you: whatsoever you are, existence gives you more of that. If you have many flowers within your being flowering, a million times more flowers will shower on you.

Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will.

When you got nothing, you got nothin' to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

He looked at her. “We’re meant to be together…” “And this is exactly what I mean.” “Our love is written in the stars.” “And there you go again.” “I love you.” “You bore me.

Nobody comes to Minnesota to take their clothes off, at least as far as I know.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth.