By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.

I'm a teleological, existential agnostic.

If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.

The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that.

I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.

I don't why whatever works and whatever doesn't. You just make the film that you enjoy making at the time, and you think there's a good chance that people might enjoy the story. You're surprised pleasantly when they do. It's just luck.

Some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all ... you know, they become lawyers.