De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

No social stability without individual stability.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

My father was in the First World War.

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

I care about what I look like on the red carpet.

If you lose your best cornerback and punter, I'd say that's a double loss.

Every memorial in its time has a different goal.

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

My grandmother used to babysit us when I was younger, and would always play old-school music. It gets to me. Grandma had some good taste.