I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Sometimes life requires more of you than you have to give & demands you plunge into the reinvention of yourself if you truly wanna live.

I love you silly 'holy' book. Here's hoping everybody un-reads it.

You say you are disappointed with life. But maybe it is life that' is disappointed with you.

The only way to have great customers is to be one.

Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!!

The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about.

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .

It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.