Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Every past is worth condemning.

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.

The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so strange and overwhelming, that an assumed stupidity is his only refuge.

The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.

... a thing can only live through a pious illusion.

Find beauty in the madness.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

If I had anything to say I'd have a say to everybody.

People go to car races to watch the crashes.

You can waste so much energy trying to make everyone happy, but at the end of the day it's impossible to please everyone, so you just need to focus on what makes you happy.

Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different.

I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.

I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors.

I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.