I transform fiction into memory.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.

Love and honesty don’t mix.

Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That's just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?

Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.

Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we’ll be.

Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.

She wanted to be free, and if she could never be free, at least she wanted to be brave - brave enough not to sell herself, no matter what the payment, or the cost of refusing.

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography it's pretty much trivialized.

If you want to have a great party at Wembley, don't invite the Germans.

Credit is the air that financial markets breathe, and when the air is poisoned, there's no place to hide.

I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies.

The truth is you are the pure Spirit. The second truth is that there is a all-pervading Divine power of love. This power of love does all the living work.

I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.

Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, "Oh I'd love to work together," and sometimes you never hear from them again.

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.