I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

This body, this body holding me. Be my reminder here that I am not alone in this body, this body holding me. Feeling eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

Me can't tell you how me know Rastafari. It is pure vision.

You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.

Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.

Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.

[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.

I'm always working on concepts and ideas for the future.

I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.

He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.