I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

The truth is always multiplex.

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

This is what happens when you look back to happiness, this pain, this heart-break, this discontent

Guy Boy Man, " says Baby Doll15. "Violence is not the answer."I look down the hallway, steely eyed. "Then I don't like the question." Sweetie and I high five.

In my father's house are many mansions.

Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.

A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

Of course, you’d warm up faster if you took your clothes off.

If all else fails, you could wait for the first corner and tie his dreadlocks to the goalpost.

You can't expect drive and compassion from everyone who enters your life, but you have to demand it of the people you are creating with.