Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

An answer is always a form of death.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

The world began in hazard and will end in it.

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

You too can be as influential as the people that you admire. It is a matter of having the willingness to work relentlessly for it.

The sightseers would have been disappointed, as the real thing always makes a poorer show than the fake. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self

I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.

As an actress I take roles I find interesting.

That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a hold of it and make sense of it somehow.

I am fairly optimistic about the disillusionment that produces homogeneity in general. The films that succeed in [theaters] are fairly homogeneous in terms of narrative and vision of the world.

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week.