A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Give up trying to make me give up

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

Once you label me you negate me.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.