If I turn up suicided in the morning, it was murder.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

God's greatest blessing

I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.

The man who follows is forever at your back, something to consider Champion.

Sometimes I'd like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that's the critic in me talking.

I am waylaid by beauty.

I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.

I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.

Often times, if a character is pretty straightforward, he or she is not as interesting to portray.

Embrace your sweat. It is your essence and your emancipation.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.