With every lecture, you’re forced to look again at every choice you’ve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these years, you see how little you have to work with, how limited your life and education have been. How scant was your courage and curiosity. Not to mention your expectations.

Let's all embrace someone near us. Pick someone special to you. Tell this someone how you feel.

The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?

No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.