Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

The most political thing you can do is be yourself

I am what I am. There's nothing I can do about it.

The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we're all gonna get ugly.

I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go.

After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously

Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] - things that you probably shouldn't like.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

Good God! how should the mitral valves prevent the regurgitation of air and not of blood?

A lot of lines in movies were written, but I'm always improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to me.

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

I spent a lot of time in India with my father. I don't know all about their religion. But I know they love God. And I don't know. I've seen their sincerity.

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

No. . .I mean, I'm sorry he. . .You know, said those things to you." "It's part of being a 'good' family. Everyone's got skeletons in their closet.

I've had dentists who have wanted to help me out, but I say, 'You know, I won't work again if you fix my teeth.'

What about Santa's cookies? I suppose 'parents' eat those, too?