I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.