My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.

I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.

I couldn't run for any office. I think that religion is bad, weed is good, and babies are disgusting; who would vote for me?

When you play a character, you bring yourself into the character. You get a chance to shine and show your translation for the character and her state of mind.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.

What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos.

I've dyed my hair a million times and it looks terrible, always. It just looks fake. And it doesn't make me look that much younger.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

An artist should use freely whatever materials he pleases.