There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

We chart delusions through collective agreement.

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.

We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can't wash it off.

Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution.

I'm not weak, I've just been strong for to long.

I love short trips to New York to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That's behind me now.

I do everything in my power to get myself to a 100% so I can perform to my potential... that's all I can ask for.

Playing President Clinton (in Primary Colors) was risky and challenging. Some people thought Saturday Night Fever was risky, because no one had danced in movies for years.

Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.

Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

Language is much closer to film than painting is.