Fear is the root of all courage.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.

If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink.

If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life.

I don't know what I want, but I want it NOW!

Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.

I've never met a man I didn't mutilate.

Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!

Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?

If you see something you don't understand, smash it.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

If you aren't loyal to the few you won't be blessed with the many.

I miss doing a series, but I don't want to do a series for a series' sake.

If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times, they're often told from a political perspective.

Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is a miscarriage of democratic procedure.

I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and they'll stay with me just as long as there's a roof over my head.

The more I know about myself the more dynamic I become, the more expansive I become.

If you really want to be part of something and you have that much passion towards it, you'll know enough to research it and find the history of it; and history is so important, history is everything.

That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace. The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.