The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.

Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want.

I've never been good at sharing my toys.

Here is how you know if it is love or lust. Push them in front of a bus. If you jump in the way and save them it is love.

Always follow your dreams, even if they lead you down a few dark alleys.

Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.

If you don't believe in yourself, why should anyone else?

Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.

Love will hurt. If it doesn't hurt you are not doing it right. To truly love someone you must open yourself up to the pain that would be losing them.

Here we don't pray for the weak, we prey on the weak.

Never outgrow your imagination.

You mortal! You time-poor! Don’t waste your scarce time to be patient!

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

The only way through death is death itself.

I've always said I don't want to have kids. I don't want a kid at all, but I do like reverse-engineering myself; managing and parenting myself.

For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn't be more wrong.

I am against the whole cliche of the moment.

She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.

The internet has made possible a frightening practice of threats and intimidation - threats of unspeakable violence and death.

[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.

It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.