Robert Pattinson is rebel cool incarnated -- the James Dean of the undead.

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you can be.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.

With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

Beliefs are conclusions reached by men who are lazy to think for themselves.

Nothing has brought me more love, joy and peace than being a good husband and good daddy.

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.

If you're gonna leave your mark, you can't follow a bunch of sheep, you gotta listen to your heart.

I have never, for better or worse, thought about a 'career path' or anything like that.

Success will smile at the man who refuses to lie down at the corridor of failure.

In the state of Alabama we have a significant number of illegal aliens that are leaving our state as occurred in Arizona after they got tough on illegal aliens.

What I'm doing now is having people with and around me to build what other designers built before - like Pierre Balmain with Josephine Baker, Audrey Hepburn, Dalida, Brigitte Bardot.

One life was never quite enough for what I had in mind.

There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.