For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.

In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.

In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.

When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.

When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story not thinking about who wrote it.

What is fiction or cinema if not escape?

You always want to unmask the person and find out who they are - that feeling of wanting what you can't have.

Marriage is supposed to be a union between two equals who love and support each other, not a master-slave relationship in which the man commands a docile woman.

Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

My philosophy? Practice, practice, practice and win.

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual can reach a plane of attention and can become attention itself.

Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido.

Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

there are hundreds who don't know the difference between a cleansing cream and an emollient - which to our minds is practically the same as being illiterate.