I'm never sure why I do anything, to tell you the truth.

Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or whatever - the discomfort is so intense. Maybe it's always been like that, certainly it is now.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

I guess you go for nothing, if you really want to go that far.

Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life.

I think that really what our training, what our culture, our religious institutions, our educational and cultural institutions should be about is preparing the heart for that journey outside of the cage of the ribs.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.