There are three types of actions : purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters , to be immediate and apprehensible, must be presented by all three.

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.

Nothing is as good as coming into the new year with zeal, hope and positive mind.

I saw a star, I reached for it. I missed, so I accepted the sky

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.

I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility.

The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning.

You go to him for advice? He’s only what? Five years old? I swear I own older sweaters. (Tory)

I have somewhat [Taylor's or Gallagher's guitars], but I like the power of the Martins.

I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.

It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.