Everybody should wish they had home movies of themselves, acting out their lunacy on LSD.
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.
The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances.
He looks sad. Or maybe that's just how he looks when he isn't doing something else with his face.
I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.
. . . all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.
I've always essentially been a New Yorker.
Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.
Art is so subjective--it means something different to every person. The important thing for it to do is to touch on the senses and emotions.
The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.