The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

But thought has no eyelids to close or ears to block...

I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.

When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America.

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

When you do more than you're paid for eventually you'll be paid for more than you do.