...knowing often felt preferable to not knowing. It provided the illusion of control.

I'd blow someone for a valium, " I said in Jacob's ear."Maybe he's got one... but try offering a hand-job first so you retain some leverage.

Tell me why the gardener trims and prunes his rosebushes, sometimes cutting away productive branches, and I will tell you why God’s people are afflicted. God’s hand never slips.

Not everything is a love story.

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community. .. where I referenced this sermon. Thanks! Keep preaching the damn Gospel!

It went on yesterday and it's going on tonight, somewhere there's somebody ain't treatin' somebody right.

Children need loving attention, closeness and deep affection and also loving touch. Love will make them feel safe.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing. I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

One thing I'm most proud of, in my movies, is that I think the performances are super-strong, but that's not all me. I think part of it is casting appropriately.

I couldn't stop staring at the cave, back where Dimitri was, back where half of my soul was.

I love New Orleans I love the way it looks. I love the way it feels.