The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place.

The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.

The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

There is no ´Complete Idiots Guide to Creationism,´ but perhaps one is not needed.

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.

In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.

He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.

The solution to self-pity is found in the labor of selfless giving to others.

It's the sad thing about entertainment, it's not always about who is the best.

The second time I was banned was when I directed a film called Xiu Xiu. I was banned for three years from China.

Hollywood's racist. Hollywood is sorority racist. It's like - we like you, Rhonda, but you're not a Kappa.

When you see fair hair Be pitiful.

For me, acting goes to a special place; it's almost mystical. You have to let go of what you think is good; it's a jump into trust, and trying to reach without wanting too much.

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

There are now some mountains that my brain can no longer climb.

Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others.