Judgement is poverty.

What was and what may be lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we have is here, now.

Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.

I believe teenagers are God's revenge on mankind. It's like He said, 'Hey let's see how they like it to create something in their own image that denies their existence.'

For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.

Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there.

The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

Teamwork requires that everyone's efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team's energy takes on a life of its own.

The prayer does call for serious, serious punishment on people. But I didn't call for that, God did.