We have to live within the framework of our limitations and the mistakes we make. Argue with Destiny, but never try to wrestle it into submission. If you do, you’ll end up losing.

I don’t enjoy surprises that compel me to renegotiate my relationship with the past.

Stop trying to be a magician. The past won’t come back. It likes its safety in memory.

I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. It’s a clumsy try for the comfort of normality.

I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.

Put some muscle into it! Channel your inner Trent Reznor!

There is no rule in this universe, which could rule this mighty Creation of that almighty Creator and that's why exceptions are always there.

What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.

There is no time like the present.

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.

People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.