The followers must feel besieged.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

To survive, you must tell stories.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

The air between them began to settle into a silence. Awkward, yet softly exciting. Like an unexpected snow day.

I'd rather make a good run than a bad stand.

Satanism represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates!

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone says.

I have always loved and continued to love Johnny Depp. Period. End of story.

A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.

Always let your reach exceed your grasp.

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

Life is fragile. We're not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you've got.