Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with.

Failures not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

I go, and I do my work, and I try to do the best I can, and I collect my money, and I go home, and then I go on to the next thing. That's my attitude.

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.

you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.

I barged through the palace, dripping a trail of blood behind me as I held the dead bird by the neck.

To live is to think.

Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.

Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie.

This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same.

Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?