Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

The mystery of the moment is indescribable.

The beauty of truth is in its simplicity.

If you say it very softly, with a smile, you can get away with saying almost anything, even the truth.

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

I don't have kids. That's why I leave it in the dumper or in the mouth, because I hate kids.

What we shouldn't do is let people who want to come here make the decision themselves. America should be in control of its own borders.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.