I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

We stand at a crossroads. Do we choose 'the will to power' or 'the will to humanity, ' or perhaps a new configuration of both: the power of humanity?

The nonessential employees, the type of workers whom remain at home when it snows, are the quickest to complain about how the talented persons of an organization behave.

It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light

Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

You have moments where you do appearances and people recognize you and you get fan letters, but that's after you've put in long days rehearsing, filming and for us kids - going to school on the set.

We are not here to solve the problems; the problems are here to solve us.

The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

What else is soul but a listener?