People are just greedy animals, after all.

And it's exactly what's wrong with the radio. It's like...anything that tries to appeal to everybody always ends up sounding so cheap.

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.

The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.

Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it's as simple as loving the way some other person looks when they're sleeping.

The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.

Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well.

...to ride well to hounds is simply a diversion. It leaves no record. But already, my dear Charlotte, you have created something, a legacy.

A 1920s dress I wore on my 21st birthday... literally disintegrated on me. I had the most wild debauched night. And that disintegrated dress sits in my closet - such a great memory.

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

I banned bottled water from my house - we have a water-filter system so you can drink from the tap. We always drink out of glass, and recycling is a huge deal, which everybody can partake in.

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live

In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.

Life is never free of contradictions

You can grow apart from people very quickly.

My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ!