Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it..

The saddest day has gleams of light, The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it. There twinkles o'er the cloudiest night, Some solitary star to che….

[Our first dinner with Alison McGhee] was at Figlio's [in Minneapolis]. I know exactly what I had, because it was so good: their three-cheese ravioli….

Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light..

Do not dehumanize others..

The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed..

Some questions change everything..

a happy birthday this evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness. I could….

We have learned nothing..

Fear is the beginning of wisdom..

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

I let the scripts basically be my Bible..

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

You can make something out of nothing..

One night I dreamed I was running. When I woke up I forgot I had a limp, so I walked totally normal until I remembered, 'oh, yeah, I have a limp'. Th….

Though the night seems long, you're tears won't fall forever..

Knowledge is after all a non-rivalrous good.

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

You're talking about the 1970s now and not the 1950s. We were all more sophisticated by that time, and I just assumed he was gay. But I do remember w….

Flowers open every night across the sky, a breathing peace, and sudden flame catching..

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