Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.

If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink.

If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life.

I don't know what I want, but I want it NOW!

Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.

I've never met a man I didn't mutilate.

Fear is the root of all courage.

Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!

If you see something you don't understand, smash it.

Reading is a beautiful prayer for knowledge.

When the heart accepts death first, words you can trust are feelings you can take.

Africa, help me to go home, carry me like an aged child in your arms. Undress me and wash me. Strip me of all of these garments, strip me as a man strips off dreams when the dawn comes. . . .

Wear an unusual accessory to complete your outfit.

Part of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions--not just constant sunshiny happiness.

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.

You know how I always believe in the future. Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do not lose it now.

My films are about faith, and they're made on faith. There has to be faith because making a movie, so many things can go wrong.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.