Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

In order for collaboration to take place, managers must give up their silos and their perceptions of power.

Kicking the door shut with the heel of my boot, I wedge her against it, raining kisses on her skin, wishing I could climb inside her and kiss away the welts left on her heart and mind.

I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence.

It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.

I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.

Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

I do enjoy running down a ditch full of mud, firing bullets. It’s the way I am. I love it.

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. Asking me about violence is like going up to Vincente Minnelli and asking him to justify his musical sequences.

Of all the things that it is possible to donate, to donate your own body is infinitely more worthwhile.