We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.

I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

People become trustworthy when they are trusted.

If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.