I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

The universe knows.

Jude taught me what love was: to be willing to hold on to another person's pain. That's it.

Sink, suffer, self-destruct Rise stronger, reconstruct

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

I really did put up all my wedding pictures on my website. And I swear to you, my wedding pictures got downloaded just as much as my bikini pictures.

The correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume a supernatural cause.

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.

I know a smart business decision when I see one - choosing open standards is | a very smart business decision indeed.

...language is never innocent.