A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?""Well, sweetheart, " I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.

Suicide is very contagious.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.

We and future generations should never forget them, Always remember them.

The truth is you can't try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.

I went to Philippines and I literally had the time of my life.

I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial.

When you get so that you can't see, you come to it gradually. And if you didn't come by it gradually, I guess you'd just kill yourself when you couldn't see.

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.

The 'public' artist confirms the world that we already accept, though he inevitably widens our experience of it; his method is one of research, the progressive uncovering of detail.

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.