Friendship is higher than love. Sometimes, it's less glamorous, or less passionate, but it's deeper and kind of wiser, I think.

I fell in love with you because there was a mischief in your eyes.

It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.

My point about alcohol is that if you abuse something, it abuses you back.

Look, the job of life is to turn your negatives into positives

I think cynicism often disguises itself as humour.

I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.

It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star.I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.

The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet.

I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.

The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.

With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.

when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.

I knew I was too late—and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live.

I love Apocalypse Now because it's a war movie, but yet it's not really a movie about war.