You want to know what love is? Its the thing that ruins you.

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.

People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.

I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.

I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.

I think giving is a blind act that should come from a part of me that sees no discrimination (that's why I called it "blind").

This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.

Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.