My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.

No concept is a carrier of life.

I believe firmly in God's control in life.

Dont' make excuses, make good.

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.

Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

By the time I finished 'Poison,' the New Queer Cinema was branded, and I was associated with this. In many ways, it formed me as a filmmaker, like as a feature filmmaker I never set out to be.

There are two answers to every question - God's answer and everybody else's - and everybody else is wrong when they disagree with him.

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?