It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.

The advantage of being married a long time was that one could argue without the necessity of the other's actual, physical presence.

Then his beautiful lips touched hers. A fluttering of wings, a cry of angels, a single beat of two hearts.

In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

I was a stuntman for over fifteen years.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

I was looking for an opportunity to make my first feature, so I asked myself: "What do you want to do? Is there something you can give to the world?"

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.