Maybe it was my revenge on people who had been unkind to me as a child. But it was very easy and a thrill to freeze up children.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

Breaking into the house in the middle of the night just wasn't his style. He did his best work in plain view, and, usually, his tongue was doing most

I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love...I love...I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.

You just work through it. You just hang in there.

Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?