You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

The time you wait subtracts the joy The heads the angel you destroy

People are strange when you're a stranger.

I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image - they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it - they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.

Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.