The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

Welcome Beauty, banish fear.

I like to be around entertaining people. Even if they're bored, and you're in a convalescent home, there's something entertaining about that, in a way.

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

It's important that the United States not forget the lessons of September the 11th, 2001. I assure you, I'm not going to forget them.

It was literally like the video game!

For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word.

Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving.

Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

You can register a political objection in a number of ways.