Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.

You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.

Does it hurt very much to die? Well, sweetheart, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.