All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.

The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?

Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

The only reason I think I would marry a foreigner would be to have kids with weird accents.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.

You won't believe how many people have congratulated me around the world for shooting a movie in 2D. It's bizarre. It's the strangest thing.

I use a "Debt Dash" approach to paying off debt. I recommend people focus on paying off the debt with the lowest balance first. So if the primary has less debt you would focus on that.

Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember.

It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself