Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane..

The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor the threat of communis….

It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, ….

You turn into this desperate dude looking for a shred of attention when you just had so much. It's like, "I'm just lonely and all I really want is a ….

I'm not a disciplined writer..

I like to explore things..

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid..

What is worth having is worth working for..

Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong..

Faith is taking God at His Word..

Nobody acts purely selfishly..

That wonderful and terribly frightening journey of self-discovery. That process of growth, of being an independent person, of learning who you are an….

I think I have quite traditional views on original sin, grace, and the real but difficult nature of we humans being able to learn something true abou….

There are so many bad songs that have incredible videos. It's pretty amazing, actually. The power of putting images to music is hypnotizing. It's a r….

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge o….

Nobody tells me f-k all!.

I like making movies..

Everybody comes from somewhere..

I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has j….

Our wills are ours, to make them Thine..