“Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don’t know whether I’m alive or whether I died. I wasn’t afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn’t feel fear. But I am afraid. I don’t understand why.”

The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.

I am a deeply superficial person.

I really do live for the future, because when I’m eating a box of candy, I can’t wait to taste the last piece.

Remember, they’ve never seen you before in their life.

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Kiss me with your eyes.

Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is.

Look poor, think rich.

When you stop wanting something, you get it.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.

You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it

What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.

Aliveness doesn’t happen in silence. Aliveness doesn’t happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action.

We have to reconceptualize and understand that the act of pursuing our dreams and being our full selves is what allows us to feel alive.

Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.

Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive…that is where God is.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.