We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.

There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

I let people off the hook too easily.

I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.

I think abortion should be mandatory for about 30 years.

Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no perception of perception.

If people see North American hockey and they see violence and brutality and it's not so interesting, that sends a message too about your culture.

You embraced what was already on the page, worked with it, massaged it.

That was a great time, the summer of '71 - I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it!

Hip-Hop is Dead cause America is dead culturally.

I owe my allegiance to the working class.

When I was young, times were hard. When I got older it was worse.