It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Find what you love and let it kill you.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

All the great feelings like goodness, love or compassion eliminate the gravity and thus the wingless man rises like a bird.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.

Russia will have much greater respect for America when I'm leading than when other people have led it. You will see that. Russia will respect our country more.

If women want to be appreciated for what we're saying, we've got to wear turtlenecks and long pants.

For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.

Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.

The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose upon yourself.

We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We don't have to - we travel in fake ethics.

I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.