The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.

I'm an actor. I was trained by Stella Adler, one of the greatest teachers of the world. I was 19 years old, and she frightened me to death. I was her houseboy for a while.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.