Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

What a revolution in her ideas!

Don't let others expectations direct the course of your life.

I'd so much rather people think I was funny than pretty.

A talking dog is not the answer. That's not a way to convince people not to smoke pot. If animals started talking to me, I would up my pot consumption just to make that happen.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair

They've kicked our backsides, we've got to lick our wounds...

Public behavior is nurtured in private; earthshaking measures come form careful steps.