Some people look 40 when they're 40. People look the way they're supposed to look at any age.

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.

So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.Takumi

There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.

You never know how long it will take. The route to success is unpredictable. So pack the essentials: parcels of love and peace, packets of patience and hope, and bundles of perseverance!

I may be a famous writer but when white people clinch to their wallet and stare at me with scorn I need to ask my skin why.

In his private heart no man much respects himself.

Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

If you felt like you've done the best thing you could possibly ever do, it's probably time to hang up your spurs because there's not much else to do.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.