The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

I've been looking to do TV for a while. I've always done guest starring stuff. I've done a couple of multi-episode arcs, and I've always loved the experience.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.