Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Find what you love and let it kill you.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

A werewolf.” He said the word like he was learning a foreign language and wanted to get the accent right.

I am partly to blame for the decking boom, and I am sorry, I know it?s everywhere these days.

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.

Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you'd rather not go.

[On President Bush's plan to get to Mars in 10 years] Stupid. Robots would do a better job and be much cheaper because you don't have to bring them back.

Wheresoever we seek our own, there we fall from love.

Is not light grander than fire?

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.

I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.