But it's the science of the stars!""She thinks it's Satanic. You gave her daughter a pentagram.""It's a natal chart, duh. You can't let ignorance trump science here, Miss Mary!

It's either perfect, or it's the worst thing ever made and everyone is an artistic failure, including myself. (Yay, emotional extremes!)

Denial is strong with this one.

I couldn’t trust my own mind anymore, which wasthe scariest thing I’ve ever experienced.

In retrospect, crappy chemicals in my brain were working overtime, driving me to destroy myself, like that thing that makes lemmings throw them¬selves over a cliff.

FYI, it isn’t how I suspected. If you eat enough Cheetos you will NOT actually poop an extra-large Cheeto.

...make sure if you're working hard at something it's in a subject you actually want to remember something about ten years later.

I've always felt like a failure inside if I'm not already a success, if that makes any sense.

...it always felt good to have that moment of resolve, like saying, "I'm gonna learn French!" It doesn't matter if you do it or not, deciding is the high, right?

I'd found my niche: cat-owning, stalker-y secretary. And I played the same part again and again and again.

...CompuServe, and it was not sophisticated, guys. It was the cave painting equivalent to Tumblr.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

Life is about execution rather than purpose.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.

I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.

The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

I like a director that encourages me to be playful. I don't really like being restricted or controlled by a director.

A good jockey doesn't need orders and a bad jockey couldn't carry them out anyway; so it's best not to give them any.

Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.