Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

Jesus Christ is the Messiah.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

Obviously she's the kind of woman who gives people the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to assume bad stuff first

You will always have value and nothing can change that.

I want to be recognized but I don't seek it out.

Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husbands.

I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.

It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.

Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.

I had big dreams when I was a boy. And I can't say that I never saw a beach house in Malibu in those dreams.