Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

I am Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds.

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

You show me a truly funny girl who doesn't have emotional issues, and I'll introduce you to my stable of unicorn thoroughbreds ridden by leprechaun jockeys.

Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.

The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them

You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That's what it's like listening to you speak.

I will never understand why people get so upset at things I don't even remember saying.

I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.

What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

You're perfectly safe. Emily is here to protect your virtue." "That's too bad.

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

I studied acting in school and then of course couldn't get an acting job.

I'm not like paparazzi. I never force myself on anyone. I always ask, and some places offer money. And so I try and get these photos to give you, the viewer, a real look at what I was seeing.

If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.

Habit was stronger than emotion.

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.