She had the look in her eye when you kick and kick at the door and it doesn't open, when you write a boy letters and letters and he never loves you, not ‘til the day he dies. Not even then.

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

The camera guys can't mess up. God bless them, they hardly ever do. But they literally don't know what's going to happen next. None of us do. And it all has to come together and be funny.

We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

There can be no stewardship without stewards.

The mind alone can not be exiled. [Lat., Mens sola loco non exulat.]

The standard of beauty is not definite. We define it.

Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.