I am going insane. Yes. That is what´s happening. Good. Insane.

My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.

Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.

I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly.

In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.

Why is edamame always ready to expire? It´s so urgent for a vegetable. Edamame. It sounds like an assisted form of suicide. Is there an advertising concept in this?

I used to loathe ambivalence now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.

The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.

They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.

Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.

I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.

We cannot protect ourselves from disappointment and still live a fully engaged life.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way

When the bonfire of love still smolders in the wake of emotional convulsions, seeds of regret and remorse may endlessly linger about on the path of life. ("Taken for a ride)

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

I myself was a wedding photographer when I was, like, 16.

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy.

The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.

Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.