That's it...I'm completely giving up on boys and concentrating on staying alive.

I feel like a crumpled up piece of paper that has something really important written on it. But no one will ever know what that is because all they see is something that's been discarded.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

you're just a side dish not the main course!

It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary.

So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.

True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.

When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.