Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle. It really is.

I was in analysis. I was suicidal. As a matter of fact, I would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian and if you kill yourself they make you pay for the sessions you miss.

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

Not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

The only thing that does change, to some degree, is [that] you have some life experiences, you suffer a certain amount and you incorporate that into your work. Not in the content of your work, but in the sensibility of your work. It's nothing that you try and do; it just happens. And if you're lucky, people buy tickets to see it, and if you're not lucky, [then] they don't like it. But that's all.