Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

The truth is always multiplex.

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

I want to win four or five championship rings. That's how I dream. I dream big.

If you are with someone who is awesome and having a good time, you can sit at a bus station and still have fun.

I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.

If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

If you mean, "My gut feeling is telling me this; therefore I can act on it and I don't have to worry," we say you should never trust your gut.

Success is the ability to do what you want, whenever you want, as often as you want.

I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.

The present is burthened too much with the past.

I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.