Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

he's not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do, maish, if you do, you'll rot in hell.

Find pleasure in the path, even if the destination can't be foreseen.

What is the essence of one's religious affiliation if one isn't living by moral principles?

My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.

I never expected that, 20 years later, Chucky would be considered a classic, if I may invoke that term. A golden oldie anyway, something that people still care about 20 years later.

There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture.

Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect

If we take, we lose. If we give, we get. It cannot be otherwise.

Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.