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.

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.

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.

It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.

God did not separate humanity from the environment in which they were created

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.

Children are the inheritance of the Lord to us in this life and also in eternity. Eternal life is not only to have forever our descendants from this life. It is also to have eternal increase.

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.