For our sin God had visited our bodies with the gruesome ignominy of rot and decay, there was no indignity in the same body’s receiving

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos.

The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles.

Well, I’m certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I’m doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.