There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

The best revenge is the time. Time takes it's revenge all the time.

Any time an opportunity scares you that much, you should seriously consider saying yes.

You cannot leave your goodness behind without stumbling into greatness

If you really want to do, be or have anything, then first destroy your greatest enemy 'doubt’. The manifestation of your desire is directly proportional to how much you believe.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

Amelie had on black pants, a black zip-up hoodie, andrunning shoes. So wrong.