Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do.

It's so hard to live that one needs a support around life. We can't live without some supernatural support.

Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius.

When I'm editing, I try to bring out some dramatic structure. I think it is about theater in some way; it is a little play.

I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.

To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.

I hadn't realized until this week that in [Moses'] youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't enough like Jesus, but yesterday I remembered who was my king; a man who, when God addressed him and told him to lead the people out of Egypt, said, 'But I'm not a good talker! Couldn't you ask my brother instead?' So it should not be so hard to come at this life with a bit of honesty. I don't need to be great like the leader of the Christian people. I can be a bumbling, murderous coward like the King of the Jews.