“We have learned by now that our beauty does not count as a possession. The only thing we truly own is our legend.”

Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it’s only yourself.

The summer following the winter that my mother took off into something called Women’s Land for what I could only guess would be all eternity.

My father decided that there was no choice but for him to quit his despised job and take me and my brother to the beach for at least the entire summer and possibly longer.

We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.

The world rushes through us. We are peaceful. We are as deep and black as space. Staring up at the stars, we see only our own image reflected back at us. We are infinite and we are ravenous.

I’m not a stand up at all, it’s such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she’s really great at it.

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

Sometimes chemistry does the trick, and other times, you have to forge that with the people.

Funny… I still can’t believe in God.” “Does that matter now?”…”He believes in you.

Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.