It's okay that we're not perfect. It's okay that we all have problems. It's okay to cry, to show emotions.

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

Happiness got me two ungrateful sons, a husband who hates me, and a painful reality living as the shunned wife. If you think this happiness you’re clinging to will last, think again.

It's nice that we have all these different films.

The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.

At Delphi I prayed to Apollo that he maintain in me the flame of the poem and I drank of the brackish spring there.

The test of happiness is gratitude.

I liked "Superman/Batman: The Search for Kryptonite" because I really enjoyed the interaction between those two characters.

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box.

Failure to deliver a deal in Hong Kong is just not acceptable, ... There must be an intensification of the efforts.