Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

The past is never where you think you left it.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

You waste life when you waste good food.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

What we need now is endless courage.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

Death. It's around more than people realize. Because no one wants to talk about it or hear about it. It's too sad. Too painful. Too hard. The list of reasons is endless.

The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.

It's really important to do everything that you possibly can to stay true to yourself.

I have never really liked gigantic-scale painting. I think that so many artists are seduced by scale - "Well, if I make it that big then it has to go in a museum."

Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.

Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.

Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.

French people are strange about America, I think.

Donald Trump's not a sexual predator.

There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.