For that matter, thinking of one's self as exceptional is probably more the rule than not.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

Those who engage in deception generally have nothing good to offer

Learn to use your third eye and you’ll be able to see beyond the sky. There is no limit, except that which you impose upon yourself.

There are brands out there, plus-size brands, that all they want to do is sell their clothes and be done.

I know for a fact the reason I'm an actor is because one, two, maybe three people when I was younger saw something that I did, in youth theater or some small play somewhere, and said, "You're good."

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves.

Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

Your life is your message.

The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.