Whoever thought that pleasure makes you happy?

People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities.

Intelligence and effort can be no compensation for ugliness.

I don’t like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self.

The past looks worse the closer you look at it.

I am dust and my story ends here.

Old age is the new childhood.

Act – make an event. Smash the coordinates and see where the smithereens fly. Let in the madness, and be sure to be a danger to oneself and others. Too much thinking turns you into that fool Hamlet.

I’m using Mao as my inspiration. “Cast away illusions. Prepare for struggle.” I’m back in business, baby. You don’t know you’re stuck until you get moving.

She still thought Sebastian planned to leave her. She had no idea he was contemplating keeping her for

Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind.

He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.

Oh, a grenade. But where is the bamboo bazooka?

I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, 'You don't even know how to make a bed.

Any one man, woman, or child can be what they want to be; but be the right thing.

I will usually be in denial about that, too, because I really don't like that. Sometimes I will recognize it and sometimes someone will say, "are you okay?" And then you think, "Oh, maybe I'm not."

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.