Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

It's an old-fashioned, very outdated, non-functioning idea that we can drain all the resources from directly around us and skyrocket to the top of a skyscraper, and that's success. We have to understand that when one has to leech from others to that degree, then that's something we need to watch and stop.

I celebrated success in the art world, which was quite sudden, and I suddenly had $1,000 a month, when formerly I had nothing, basically. So what we did with this money: we had a baby, we bought a car, and we celebrated by going to Rome, because it would be warmer and better looking.

I've never had the luxury - or the nightmare - of having something just blow up and be this huge success and then have everything thrown at you. Being 'the best friend' lessens the responsibility, 'cause I can still go do another movie after something that doesn't do well.