Arthur Conan Doyle had to be Sherlock Holmes in order to envision how Sherlock Holmes would unravel a mystery. He had to be in Sherlock's situations. As a writer, you have to be of two minds.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

I'm such a geek, I know all about mythology and I don't know Marc Jacobs.

Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well.

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

In many, many ways... Hufflepuff is my favorite house.

Via money Europe could become political in five years

Lady Madelyne had sealed her own fate. She'd warmed his feet.

What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?

Lenny Kravitz is one of my favorite musical artists.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

He wasn't sure exactly which day, but what's noteworthy about that is that is also before Valerie Plame is first identified in the Robert Novak piece that ran on Monday, July 14.