There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and….

Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is..

What's great about symbols, what a writer can do with them is provide a really vivid, interesting image, and the reader will do the rest of the work.….

There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around a blossom of fire. When I stand upri….

We have learned nothing..

Fear is the beginning of wisdom..

I think that even in a drama, we all want to smile, and laugh because what a horrible life if we're just like "I'm in a drama." And so I think in eve….

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop..

You can't expect everyone to laugh or applaud you for doing edgy things. Sometimes you'll miss. But I think comedians are artists and there's a value….

I let the scripts basically be my Bible..

In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that you know the nature of t….

Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing..

You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.

You can make something out of nothing..

This involves more than I can discuss here, but do it. Read the writers of great prose dialogue-people like Robert Stone and Joan Didion. Compression….

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools..

Knowledge is after all a non-rivalrous good.

What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here..

Life's the longest picture you're ever gonna take..

I wanted you to watch, so I stomped around the room to wake you before I got in the shower. Didn't you wonder why the light was on? It wasn't for me,….

The headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be..