I was always totally convinced that three weeks after the revolution they'd put me up against the wall and shoot me.

I'm not sure that Van Gogh got up in the morning and looked at the crows and the bizarre clouds and went damn that's a good painting, you know? No, he considered shooting himself, and one day he did.

I like to write adventure stories; that's what I tell myself. But you can't help letting your own personality, your own experiences, slip through.

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

Every invention eventually becomes obsolete.

I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.

You can't go home and listen to Chopin, and just use it.

I was exactly having fun. I was stone miserable, but I wasn't hating doing it; I was loving doing it, but it's just damaged and warped.

First Cosmic Seal:(Devic Seal 333) One who has received this Cosmic Seal is empowered to control not less than 40, 000 spirits.

sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it.

Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

It's one thing believing in yourself, it's another thing having other people believe in you, and that is the greatest gift, honestly.

Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.

Our dependence on fossil fuels amounts to global pyromania, and the only fire extinguisher we have at our disposal is renewable energy.

I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.

People think that I'm really untouchable, and that's also translated into a lot of people thinking that I'm super-ungrateful.

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

Addictions and mental disorders are like a disease, and they need treatment.