[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity.

I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.

Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.

Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.

The red lips are - I don't want to call them "armor," but they're the clothes of my character, and I'm in the business of entertainment. Wearing red lipstick helps get me into that world.

I'm always a bit shy around evil people.

I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now

Vampires are so sexy and powerful - they're so otherworldly; they have eternal life and youth.

Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.