It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born.

Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.

The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.

we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.