There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

If you want to give birth to any discoveries or inventions, you must start practicing solitude.

The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.

We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.

I love the jacket with a varnish finish, a bomber. I adore the proportions, with the tight skirt, no stockings, very sexy - skirt to the knee.

[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom.

When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation very natural, because it allows me to address audiences directly.

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

We are reluctant to let go of the belief that if I am to care for something I must control it.

Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.

I got hoes in different area codes