I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Getting angry is like burning yourself with other people’s fires. Let is stop by being kind and forgiving like water.

I began to feel that nature itself was nurturing me, reminding me that life still offered beauty and calm, and that I was also made out of these elements.

Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality

Don't wait for answers, just take your chances. Don't ask me why.

You cannot judge the value of a life by its length.

Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?

I never sold drugs. A lot of people used to think I was that dude but I never sold a crumb. I used to always be upset with that.

I don't think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right filmmakers, studios have a preconceived notion to pass on NC-17 material.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.