Beauty is biased, brainless. It says little to nothing about anybody as far as ethics are concerned, so why not monetize it? Give it some value, pin it with a price point. Otherwise, it’s worthless.

Repression is dangerous. It makes anvils of memories and drops them from impossible heights when you least expect it.

I love you. Let's get this over with.

I want to know exactly how many pieces of myself I had to give away before I became something else entirely.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes.

It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

The board transported its jurisdiction to a never-never land where a Dorothy of the new millennium might exclaim: "They still call it Kansas, but I don't think we're in the real world anymore."

Underneath the stress is fear, and the biggest is our own personal fear of failure.