Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.

Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.

The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.

Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!

Worry is the destroyer of understanding.

Such polite manners for an armed man who was kidnapping me. Danilo could take a few lessons from him.

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.

I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.

I was a geek in high school.

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.

Always be classy. Never be crazy.

I started making a point earlier that women's cancer rates are skyrocketing, and we have some women movie stars, young women movie stars, who are smoking in many of their movies.

I have a green card now, but they can take that away, yeah, they can take that away at any moment. So please don't; please let me keep it.

If I lost weight, I'd be two-dimensional!