Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.

I was looking for the key for years But the door was always open

The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave

You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

I wouldn't change what happened to me because then I wouldn't have this chance, in front of all of you, to embrace more people than I ever could have with two arms.

I am wholly, ardently, unabashedly in love with you.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler

Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used.

It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.

Even getting one amazing shot in a pristine environment is what I live for.