You can’t let the fear of failure keep you from taking the risks that you know are the right ones to take.

I have found the more fantastic the setting, the more truthful the confessions.

There's great power in not fearing solitude. You don't allow yourself to be treated like crap because you're afraid of the alternative.

Stop making excuses for people treating you like shit. Demand respect and you'll get it.

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. She was who she was - she'd been born this way, Why should she have to change who she was to satisfy someone else?

I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.

leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best.

I am Butler. Anything I say sounds scary.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.

I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.

Border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better.

The people who come to my shows have dollar signs drawn all over them. They have blue lipstick. I call them my animals because they just go totally mental.

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values.