We think, "If I have more money, I am more valuable. If I make more money, I am more valuable." It's all sort of wound up with this problem that humans have with their failure.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence.

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white

Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks together.

There's times I'd rather kill you than listen to your honesty.

Throughout hip-hop people have been putting different elements with different types of music.

When my hair is dyed, I feel like I'm 35 again.

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful.

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.