Thought is borne of failure..

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?.

There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you sho….

I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies..

We pretend we have it all. We pretend we can have it all..

I utilize myself a lot more fully now. You get older so you have a lot more experience..

Perhaps... you love too fiercely..

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'.

I only invoked what you already knew..

My success wasn't based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up..

I perceived that I wouldn't have to go out and search for what I was supposed to do- it would unfold before me..

Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control..

I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself..

He is coming, and I am here..

I like that you let yourself be surprised.

Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain of life. It is unsentimental, i….

You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes-sometimes it cries….

I always do things before I go on a case and when I leave a case. I even do that when I'm out on the road..

May the pain of every living creature be completely cleared away. May I be the doctor and the medicine and may I be the nurse for all sick beings in ….

You can only work on yourself. Start there..

When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it..