The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

… e mult mai nobil sa ramai lucid oricat te-ar coplesi viata, esti totdeauna mai putin om cand te imbeti, indiferent cum, si daca fuga de realitate nu-i chiar o decadere, ramane totusi o infrangere.

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

It has been said that a man with an argument is no match for a man with an experience.

People tend to overuse any idea or concept that delivers an emotional kick.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

One of the greatest things I've learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors.

Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people.

Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.

I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.