"I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame."

"Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me."

"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."

"All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world."

"Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater."

"I do what I want. It's because I got booed and picked on that I really don't care anymore."

"I've been doing a lot of stuff that has to do with charity and giving. I'm trying to give and not take as much."

"Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick."