By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's fine.

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and I hear myself talking and sort of stumble and stammer, or I hear the horrible sound of my own voice, or God forbid I see myself on video, there is that complete revulsion with seeing how I occur in the world.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.