There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because to some degree, I projected upon it.

I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit.

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.