I don't believe that relationships are fixed things. People are necessarily complex and confused beings. We don't always do the right thing, say the right, and behave the same way or the way we always want to behave.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.

I've always had an urge to feed my need to have fun and feel free. I don't see any interesting alternatives.

Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.

[on the birth of his son after having had two daughters] I finally got it right.

Kids are life's only guaranteed, bona fide upside surprise.