You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply.

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.

I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.

I like stirring things up. Im on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I dont get in too much trouble.

The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.

Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.

you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement.

His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.

I'm learning with my mom how to cook more Spanish food. I'm trying to make a good paella, but that's a real art.

We are afraid that we have not lived. We are not afraid of dying.

It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.

It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not.

I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn't a healthy way to live.

Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

I really love to resurrect pieces from my past collections and wear them to fashion week parties.

I think that music has been a great help to me and this has been confirmed by every psychiatrist I have seen. I would probably be dead if not for music.