Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

Like it or not, your life—what works well and what doesn't—is largely the result of the first impressions you have created along the way.

I have been guilty of wrong thinking.

Baby girl you need to stop it, all that pride and self esteem got you angry bout this girl I'm wit in all them magazines.

[In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome.

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society, and the whole world.

Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.