Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

Love and honesty don't mix.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.

If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it

Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

Lying is the greatest of all sins.

Mickey Rourke was the Brad Renfro of the '80s.

Women have more inner power for creation, starting from family and home and ending with professional activity and politics.

We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

It is nice to travel the world and sell records and meet fans and that is so much fun. But I want to always remember that music can heal and it can make someone's day.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

I have been exposed to most musical genres and have learned how to tackle them effectively.