“It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.”

You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.

The better the actor, the more stupid he is.

They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?

The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.

It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

I can see every monster as they come in.

Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.

Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

Audiences believe what you believe. It’s a matter of believing yourself. If I believe me, then you’ve got no choice. None at all.

When you have made your choice, it is providence that is your guide. Good, bad, or indifferent. Your fate lies in that.

Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that’s the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.

I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.

Have the courage and strength to be yourself. Because there is no other choice. Do you have a choice of being somebody else?

Sometimes people rehabilitate and reform their lives into being a great person when they make awful choices as children.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.