Die Sympathie und die Zuneigung, die man im Alltag empfängt, dürfen nie zur Selbstverständlichkeit werden. Man erkennt die schönen Dinge im Leben bekanntlich erst, wenn man sie vermisst.

Der Unterschied zwischen Einsamkeit und Alleinsein ist gravierend.

Manchmal ist das Glück, nach dem man sein Leben lang sucht, direkt vor seiner Haustür. Mit offenen Augen und achtsam durchs Leben zu gehen, kann einen bereichern und das geben, wonach man sich sehnt.

Man sollte ich öfter mit dem zufrieden geben, was man hat, anstatt sich nach existenzlosen Dingen zu sehnen, die einen dies vergessen lassen.

Der Mensch neigt oft dazu, zu glauben, dass ihm nur in Träumen richtig warm wird. Deshalb träumt er gerne. Doch die Realität hält meist nicht, was die Fantasie verspricht.

Allein zu sein ist nicht so schlimm, wie die Angst davor einsam zu sein.

Im Grunde braucht man keine Angst davor zu haben, alleine zu sein. Die Welt ist voller Begegnungen und lebenden Bereicherungen, die man oft nicht wirklich wahrnimmt.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all.

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.

Our house is clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly layered one over the other.

It's nice to have proper film fans respecting and appreciating your work.

All Christian power springs from communion with God and from the indwelling of divine grace.

If a new artist wants to put out some sort of off-the-wall, crazy deep ballad about the sun or whatever, it might be hard to get traction. It's so much easier for someone established to put out a really heartfelt, deep song and get it played in radio.

Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

Marriage can be tricky and challenging at times.

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

Artists can do whatever they want!

Clearly Google is searching for a way to do business in China that avoids them sending someone to jail over an e-mail.

I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough.

If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.

I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

I'd say that the director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell in 'In the Soup'. It was one of my earliest leading roles, and he gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

Oh yeah, the preacher's kid has to be the baddest one. If everyone is smoking weed, we've got to smoke crack. If you're throwing rocks, we've got to throw bigger rocks.

Human life is created in Gods image and that makes it sacred.

Most people who act heartless have a sweet heart. They just act heartless to protect themselves from getting hurt again.

When I was pregnant, I was like, 'I'm pregnant, so I'm allowed to eat everything: bagels with cream cheese for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and I can have pizza for dessert.'