Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

People like to run their mouths.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.

We of alien looks or words must stick together.

Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.

In some ways, the challenge of staying political is to stay a dreamer at the same time.

My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.

There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.

I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.

You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.

The things we discover for ourselves are the most important.

Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.

I want to follow in my father's footsteps, but do it better.