In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point.

Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.

In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.

Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.

This is a donut. It is very sweet, and very good. But if you've never tasted a donut, you wouldn't really know how sweet and how good a donut is... meditation is like that. Transcendental Meditation gives an experience much sweeter than the sweetness of this donut.