Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.

You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?

But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.

Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.

There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers.

It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats—let you know if you’re off course. But it ain’t always possible…

I live in an ocean of smell…

The very air they breathed was almost a juice.

…the love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.

What does my smile look like now? Vivi wondered. Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it?

The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men

A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization!

Do not allow yourself to be aggravated by someone’s anger. Stay calm.

Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise.

When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'.

I think what scares people about not being normal is being ostracized for not being like other people. And that's hurtful when that happens.

Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.

Action can make you laugh. But just because you are glad. Even if there is no meaning.

I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.