It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

The truth is always multiplex.

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are.

Thinking harder is more important than working harder.

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.

The moment you get pregnant, you're tortured by the fear of not doing it well. But I feel at peace with that right now.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

You will never make it. ‘It’ doesn’t exist for an artist.

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

The welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, nor by physical comfort only.