Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

I don't believe in karma.

At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

Wherever in the world a country is governed by spiritually ill, politically empty, ethically rotten and mentally stupid people, over there you can find nothing but chaos, tears and fire!

The visual of Satan isn’t one of a big red devil with horns. Even worse, it’s the picture of something good, twisted enough to be compelling.

In Tulsa, it was sports or nothing.

I wouldn't touch Chimbonda with a barn door

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."

I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.

We can't start dividing people up into categories. In the past, France has often committed the error of not speaking to everybody because there was a belief that some countries could be neglected.

The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.

You get one life. I'm going to embrace mine.