"We each have a finite number of heartbeats, a finite amount of time. But we have enough heartbeats and enough time to do what is important."

“Be aware that the fire that does not grow is extinguished.”

“I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind.”

“She was a Jew feeder without a question in the world on that man's first night in Molching. She was an arm reacher, deep into a mattress, to deliver a sketchbook to a teenage girl. (84.25)”

“...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.”

Source : Twitter post from May 11, 2016

“True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe.”

“Take it easy. Don't approach music as a religion.”

Source : "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

“It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.”

Source : "Horns and Halos: An Interview with Neil Jordan". Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

“No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.”