I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.

I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!

What kind of system do we have when innocent people can sit on death row for 30 years?

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.