Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.

I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

To be weird! That is my goal!

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

There is a whole other world with an entirely different version of me, a me that is not pretty, a me that no boys want, a me she would never talk to.

This won't stop her from getting elected...Stupider people get elected all the time. It's America. We love the sleazy. And the crazy.

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

To make something, you have to work within your abilities. Honestly assess what you can do and even more important, what can't you do.

The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.

It's a cakewalk, when you know how.

If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors.

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

When I look at the work, if it speaks to me, I'll say 'yes' and if the work doesn't resonate with me, I'll politely decline.