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"I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'"
"Stay hungry, stay foolish."
"It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy."
"Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again."
"The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love."
"Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide."
"The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment."
"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety."
"The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape."
"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
"I have not slept one wink."
"Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth."
"His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!"
"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"
"All the new people you meet, it's pretty amazing. The vampire needs new blood. And there is still a lot to learn and there is always great stuff out there. Even mistakes can be wonderful."
"Whenever I go past McDonalds I get very, very angry."
"I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there."
"Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence."
"Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes."
"When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want the story to be memorable and the characters to touch the reader's heart."
