I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

Don’t talk to people you don’t want to talk to, and don’t talk about stuff you don’t want to talk about.

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

Inspiration without perspiration leads to frustration and stagnation.

I always wanted a beautiful loving wife and she always wanted to be a citizen.

Playboy seems like a sad magazine for me. It seems like for men who would sit around in a bath robe.

Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.

Beauty is the flower of virtue.

And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies.

I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.