To get where you want to go, you can't only do what you like.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere

To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.

They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

Every time I get criticism from people, I learn from it and what to do the next time so there are fewer misconceptions. I'm continuing to be socialized as a woman, but also as a filmmaker.

Where there is a will there's a law suit.

Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.

Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

Don't bother trying to guilt me. Ask my other. It doesn't work.

A good wanderer leaves no trace.

I'm not too sure if I have a very smart approach to revealing my life. Luckily, I doubt if many people really care about my life that much.

I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.