Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?
History is a pageant and not a philosophy.
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Libraries are not made, they grow.
There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven
It is the Mass that matters.
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
I don't give a damn how you feel about me, I sip lean pure codeine and I don't give a damn what you say about me.
['American Dream' will be released] probably never. Never in the United States because there's no room for independent cinema.
Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce.