“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”

It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

The true things rarely get into circulation. It’s usually the false things.

I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

I defy gravity.

They will only care when you’re gone.

Everyone has violence in themselves. I’m violent.

That’s the way you feel when you’re beaten inside. You don’t feel angry at those who’ve beaten you. You just feel ashamed.

A friend tells you what you want to hear; a best friend tells you the truth.

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn’t see or hear or touch.

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad.

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.

Fear is stupid, so are regrets.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.

I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it

The most powerful person in the world is the story teller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.