Life was a pre-death experience.

Do it from the heart or not at all.

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening.

…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.