The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.

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.

How we lead ourselves in life impacts how we lead those around us.

Beware of logic.

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.

The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity.

Maybe one day the old guys will die off and things will change, 'cuz it's officially getting scary over here in America.

At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

I play with children so that I can learn from them.

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.