"When I'm in a state of goodness about the world, no matter what is happening, I see that goodness. But if I'm in an irritable, angry, separate state, I've shut down."

“I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.”

“My fans - I hate the word fans...my supporters - it's an international following that isn't from being in London and existing on the "scene." It came from being on the Internet, from being a teenager communicating with different artists, showing who I am, who KESH is, as well as connecting with other people around the world doing similar things.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

“An older child, one who possesses a conscience, will be troubled with self-reproaches and feelings of shame for his naughtiness, even if he is not discovered. But our two-year-olds and our three-year- olds experience guilt feelings only when they feel or anticipate disapproval from the outside. In doing this, they have taken the first steps toward the goal of conscience, but there is a long way ahead before the policeman outside becomes the policeman inside.”

“We're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me.”

“You can go to Spain, and Cubans are looked down upon. It's strange how people chop up where you're from.”

“For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.”

“No matter how tired or wretched I am, a pussycat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind.”

“So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life.”

Source : Winston Groom (2002). “Forrest Gump”, p.241, Simon and Schuster