I, love, I am the pure acetylene virgin attended by roses.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

If this is dying, Chloe thought, I'd like to do it again sometime.

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.

One needs to have some sense of purpose. Next, you need to have a vision that grows out of that purpose.

I'd always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film.

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.

Regular chiropractic adjustments go hand in hand with good health.

Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.