Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Living alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things which had no foundation on fact.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

We're not on a journey to a goal, the goal is with us changing with us.

I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.

I'm not trying to denounce the visual past. It just seems impossible to me to be able to keep making the same image that I made six years ago.

It's all about who your team is and who your people are.

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

I'm the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker.

I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.

If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.