I don’t know anybody who doesn’t have a fantasy. Everybody must have a fantasy.

I like boring things.

Sociological critics are waste makers.

Beauty really has to do with the way a person carries it off

One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love

Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why.

James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.