This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream.

People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I wantto vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea

My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them.

After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave.

Perhaps it was a passing moment of madness after all. There is no trace of it any more. My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them.

So you realized that there were always women in tears, or a red-headed man, or something else to spoil your effects?""Yes, naturally.

A little more and I would have fallen into the mirror trap. I avoided it, but only to fall into the window trap: with nothing to do, my arms dangling, I go over to the window.

I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon.

He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps.

The beliefs you hold strongly in your mind will become your dreams and in time become your reality.

Don’t stay with someone who drives you crazy. Find someone who keeps you sane.

Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

Don't be scared to dream big, and don't be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It's the tenacious not the talented that win.

I've worked with children all my life.

I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?

As soon as there's pain, you know the gold is just beneath.

For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.'

I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it