I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy.

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

If you are a parent, if you are an educator, there are very many good and powerful reasons to take children onto the Internet, but you have to be involved with them-you cannot expect government authorities or industry authorities or other people to do your job for you, and that is to help guard your children against some of these things that are occurring out there.

On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to one’s body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdog one had to haul around. It barked too much and had no sense of loyalty.

You see, you just don't know I'm here to give you my heart And you want some fashion show

Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.

Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing it to be something sensuous . . . the viewer's lips slightly wet as the scene plays out. Violence is nothing like that. It is lightning fast, chaotic, and totally intangible.