Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.

To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.

We love the things we love for what they are.

Research is creating new knowledge.

When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expression, something unique to their face.

By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.

One of the most important things I've learned about acting is that you can't separate how you live your life and how you practice your art.

There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.

Bliss becomes blissful with practice. In our own bliss the desire, desirer and process of desiring are united - they are one. Desire is fulfilled at its source.

You can't imagine how hard I am on myself. Nothing pummels me like my own doubts, the feeling of how far I still have to go.

There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.