Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

I'll joke all day, but once I get in the gym, I'm going to work hard.

Other people's opinions do not determine your potential.

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.

What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

History is written by those who hang heroes.

I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all one must start somewhere.

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.