One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

I would say one must just keep working hard and not lose faith. You don't know when destiny is going to come your way, what opportunity comes your way.

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

I usually tell somebody if a song’s for them. I don’t always tell them if it’s about them.

Good entrepreneurs have a chip on their shoulders. They are out to prove something.

Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.

It's pretty clear to me that working as a director for hire agrees with me. I like it. The films that have come out of that, I personally like better than the ones that didn't.