Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d been concealing – known as guilt.

Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind

The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

I need to be able to engage people; that’s where I flourish.

If I ever have a chance to become a top-notch guy on a top team, I think that's more valuable than anything else.

I drink no cider, but feast on Philadelphia beer.

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.