I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

We all give up great expectations along the way.

I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.

The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.

The words sounded like a mournful incantation.

People say love isn’t supposed to be painful. But maybe the best things in life are the ones that hurt the most after they’re gone.

The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.

Now is the time to take back your energy, your power, and your peace.

I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.

Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private.

I shun drawing which is too easily formulated. It does not seem fertilized enough to produce consequences, and a drawing should be a provider of consequences.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

I didn't know what my fate was as far as being alive.