What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb?

Convictions are prisons.

Knowledge kills action action requires the veils of illusion.

The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man's interpretation of his life and struggles.

Morality negates life.

...But all that power has culminated in gentleness. It is as if that is the point of power: to allow one to access the higher registers of gentleness.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability he will be there.

A woman gets stretch marks from one of two things. Either she was big and got small or she was small and got big.

I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.

Friendship, trust, honor, respect, admiration, this whole experience has been such a revelation.

The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner workings of the Internet.

On the issue of inflation, I think I could solve it no matter how much money it took.

You want the actors to disappear into roles and stay under the radar, and that gets harder when someone is known for their actual personality, or who they seem to be.

You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.