Spending practically every minute of your day on pure survival is an absolutely boring life.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

The truth is always multiplex.

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

And most of the time, when you're young and dumb - you know everything! Charles Freeman Lee bebop pianist and trumpeter

Faint heart never won fair lady.

I have a lot of good days I'd like to relive.

Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.

Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say.

I prefer the Chinese method of eating.... You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

Successful men don't date up. They are intimidated by wealthy women unless they are blue bloods. Successful men want to always take care of their women, and that means financially.

When you go through abuse - the behavior - what happens is all behavior stems from faulty belief.

You cannot export revolution, progress, by force of arms.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.