You should not separate your life from what you do.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard.

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

When things don't go well they like to blame presidents; and that's something that presidents are paid for.

Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright With joy the spirit moves and burns; So up to thee! O Fount of Light! Our light returns.

Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another.

The investigations also proved that there were many cases of spontaneous deviation, i.e. cases where there had been no stimulation of the semi-circular canal apparatus.

My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.

I was so cold I almost got married.