In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.

In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.

For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.

When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.

When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story not thinking about who wrote it.

What is fiction or cinema if not escape?

You always want to unmask the person and find out who they are - that feeling of wanting what you can't have.

There are times that all you need is someone who will listen to you without judging you — not telling you what you should have done or should do, but simply, listening to you

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

Adapting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

Don't downgrade your dream to match your reality. Upgrade your faith to match your destiny.

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.

I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.