What I didn't realize is how completely consumed I would be by my sons. I didn't know that the rest of my life would become so little a priority.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

Master the art of selfloveand you will never have to seekvalidationever again.

I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists?

The problem with the immigration debate, it's probably is the most poisoned and political debate of any issue, because you have this huge voting bloc that everybody says is yours

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless.

If God can save Paul, He can save anybody. If God could use me, God could use anybody.

There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks

The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.

Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.

Actually... I'm starting a new thing and rebelling against ridiculously high heels. It's inhumane.