Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

Human beings are self-motivated. The two desires that spur human action are hunger and love. Without memory, humankind would no longer hunger for love.

I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.

The easiest way to make a fruitcake is to buy a darkish cake, then pound some old, hard fruit into it with a mallet. Be sure to wear safety glasses.

As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn't know where to look.

I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire.

If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.

Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner.

If you depend on God's grace there is no such thing as impossible.