Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.

Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.

Love is when you let someone be the way they are.

Most of us would rather kill ourselves than be, particularly if who we think we are keeps dying. Many of us do.

Catholic education and law schools provide me with a lot of miserable people as psychotherapy clients. I should be grateful. These people are looking for rescue from their education.

We could all do with a bit more joy in our lives couldn't we? The wonderful thing is that when we start spreading joy, we begin to actually experience more joy in our lives too!

Every time Nyx thought she’d gotten out of the business of killing boys, she shot another one.

A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.

I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.

The last Christian died on a cross.

I did a different production with a different director and Bill Pullman. Oleanna­ - the one you saw - we were doing right after Bourne Identity or right after it came out.

She briefly wished she did have some sort of magic so she could shoot a bolt of lightning through his head.

One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.

Body and soul need new challenges.

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.