He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe)

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

By the day, I praised you and never knew it, by night, I stayed with you and never knew it. I always thought I was me but no, I was you and never knew it.

Writing is easy: all you do is sit staring at the blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.

Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.

Every dance is and gives ecstasy.

Anybody who has anybody in the armed forces, I don't care how well-trained they are, there's nothing safe about it.

All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.

It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar.

When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.