I’ve had all the monstrosity I want.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

I've become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital - no other city has more contemporary gallery space than Los Angeles. We've come into our own, finally.

I built my entire career off of teen comedies. I was in 'Bring It On'.

I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.

I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not. But like when I see a movie, for example, that I really like, that moves me or whatever, it's usually happy and sad at the same time.

Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.

That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your receptivity is for the negative.

one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.

If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.