The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.
Every shy person is a potential sex offender.
Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.
To save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of monsters at them. They are our monster which we will temporarily free ourselves from only to face another day.
Money buys everything, even true love.
I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.
Love is impossible without bite marks.
What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness?
The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.
We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).
My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2. 10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.