...if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

Sometimes life is nothing more that a mere constant battle of tug and war between what's best for you and what makes you happy.

In the movie business, the ones we call Lucky are usually those idiots who are just too damn stubborn to take no for an answer. Come to think of it, the movie business is kind of like life.

Don't Expect Others To Read Or Hear your Thoughts.If You Want To Be Heard, Speak Up!

There's no smoke without mud being flung around.

The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

John Kerry is a sphincter. Okay, that's a bit juvenile.

[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

Ford O'Connell, the guy in the sound bite we just played, he's the guy who said that nominating a conservative presidential candidate would just postpone the GOP nightmare.

Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sendest me to God.

We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.