I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life.

the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own

... sometimes love becomes a power game between ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves.

There's no such thing as a problem that's yours and not mine.

Age had drained the color from her eyes the way darkness drains the color from everything

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

[My mother] was the strength of our family, and I didn't realize that until I got a little bit older.

Bowie has an unusual face. He's neither a man nor a woman. There's this aura of fantasy that surrounds him. He has flair.

It's nice to have recognition for doing a good job, but at the end of the day, I'm just an actor and I'm doing my job and I'm always trying to get better at doing that job.

I think natural gas has been a big part of the solution if in fact we need to reduce man-generated carbon dioxide emissions.