Pastoral Resources

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.

I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.

The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name.

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists.

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.

I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children.

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.