She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.

A curator treasures aged bibles, but the wise treasure the wisdom within.

Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.

I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life.

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do

The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.