My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

Dreaming isn't bad for you but not doing anything to craft your dream is.

There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.

The world will never know you because you were not bold and did not take a risk

They are bright and exciting. Like America. Like its women.

To be in touch with yourself requires great sensitivity to everything that's going on here and now.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

What's important is that I'm working with very talented young people.

I want to encourage people to not think in terms of gifts, but think in terms of, wow. You work hard to succeed at that, because that's exactly what I do.

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.

Guided by film...we approach, if at all, ideas no longer on highways leading through the void but on paths that wind through the thicket of things.