If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

We are here to laugh at the odds.

you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the demonic ladies, you've got to run along the edge of madness teetering, you've got to starve like a winter alleycat, you've go to live with the imbecility of at least a dozen cities, then maybe maybe maybe you might know where you are for a tiny blinking moment.

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.

‎"she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.