What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Be the voice, that can be heard without a microphone.

It has become more and more obvious that there is one political party in America, and that is The Business Party.

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

We're thanking God. Without him, we wouldn't have made it.

I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292

I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe

I want to manufacture a feud.

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.