The times in my life when I have been most happy haven't been the times when I have had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I've been in love or in community or right with people.

The thing about being irresponsible is it's only cute till you are about twenty-two or so, then it becomes a liability. One day you wake up under a pizza box, the television blaring in your bedroom, the laundry piled up over what might be a bedside table, and you ask yourself: 'How did my life get like this? Why don't people like me? Didn't I have a cat and what is that smell?'

I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.

If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to be perfect.