What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead.

Memory is not pure. Memories told are not pure memories; memories told are stories. The storyteller will change them. I've always been interested in that.

In grammar school I read 'Act One' by Moss Hart, and being a playwright struck me as the most magical and romantic career anyone could have... But I never did write a play.

I think place and time for me is often a matter of convenience, something I can use to another end rather than something I'm trying to define because it's somehow fascinating to me in itself. It's more what the place can do for the larger goals I have for the work.

I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of saying 'Hi.'

God buries His workmen but carries on His work.

First of all, I am a man of God, and God is love. My expressions are always going to be about love.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.