The quieter we become, the more we can hear..

All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which I thi….

I'm a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be..

To understand something is to be delivered of it..

There are a thousand flowers blossoming in spring, The magical light of the full moon in autumn; There is a breeze in summer, And snow in winter; And….

What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I've lived too long where I can be reached..

There is so much more than we can see, there is so much more that we can be..

Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for tears, have mercy on one who sheds tears; i….

Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old..

The more things you own, the more they own you..

I'm good for some things, bad for a lot of things..

Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest..

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at th….

We have to save as many lives as we possibly can..

The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other..

Whatever is contained must be released..

Don't be afraid to have nothing..

Paul Schrader, he's a... son of a gun. He's a very feisty, very straightforward guy. He's your auteur director. He sent me to a fat farm down in Palm….

I'm not exactly repulsive..

And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside..

this is the upside of already being eternally damned.