What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.

When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.

With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

It is your duty in life to save your dream.

Happiness is an angel with a serious face

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps.

You are not alive unless you know you are living.

Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.

I have to say Justine Bateman may be the most underrated sitcom actress ever.

Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.

Back in high school I told my dad, "I'm going to have a computer someday." And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house. And I said, "Well, I'll live in an apartment."

We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia.

Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.

Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.