I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.

The pimp has a grin, never a smile.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

Power is not pleasure, power is pain.

Grace is the music that happens inside of you when you hear the music.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness

That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.

To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.

Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.

...photography is made essentially of time. I often think that what we show is a point in time, more than a window onto space.

I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers.

I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple.

What you do off the job is determining factor in how far you will go on the job.