I must not be selfless: develop a sense of self. A solidness that can't be attacked.

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.

If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change

To wander solitary there:Two paradises ‘twere in oneTo live in paradise alone.

Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it.

At five o'clock Paris always has a current of eroticism in the air.

If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.

But I couldn't ever make that dream happen. It just came on its own, the way dreams do.

I want to bring something different to every film. I get a bit tired of actors who kind of are the same character in every film that they do.

As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.

My prayer is to learn new things, imbibe fresh insights. You must not take life too seriously. You must enjoy the process of living.