Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.

You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.

I believe in angels, so it's simple.

I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself.

To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.

They miss the whisper that runsany day in your mind, "Who are you really, wanderer?"--and the answer you have to giveno matter how dark and coldthe world around you is:"Maybe I'm a king.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

Being inclusive sometimes means being kind toward people whose views are repugnant. But you should only do so if it is physically and emotionally safe for you.

While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking - to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.

Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.

Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.

Silence gives consent.

Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.