I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Find what you love and let it kill you.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

And you learn [how to win] starting in the minor leagues, by winning day in and day out.

As for developing a writing style'I would say that I tried to copy the pacing of the old movies I loved as a kid.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.

She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city.

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.