Art never comes from happiness

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

Alright, manly man,” he says. “Go prove that you’re a man.

Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.