Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty.

I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy.

Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.

Our team is good at getting dressed real quick, because we're the type of team that wears their uniforms all day.

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing it to be something sensuous . . . the viewer's lips slightly wet as the scene plays out. Violence is nothing like that. It is lightning fast, chaotic, and totally intangible.

I love this mansion, though it is too many windows ...to open halfway each morning ...to close halfway each night.