"You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s."

“Sometimes I just want to be left alone and be a normal kid for, like, five minutes. That's tough when the paparazzi are chasing you.”

Source : "Kendall Jenner: ‘Keeping up With the Kardashians’ ‘Brought Us Everything We Have’" By Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2013.

“At first I thought he was walking a dog. Then I realized it was his date.”

“Hank Willis Thomas is great. He's the one who "discovered" my work and saw something that I didn't see. He's still constantly pushing me to try out new ideas and not be afraid of what other people will say. He truly is a mentor, and I often ask him about the art world, how to juggle it all and not lose your mind. It would be like accepting an award without thanking him because he really has been so supportive.”

“The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.”

“[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.”

Source : Paul Bowles (2000). “The Paul Bowles reader”

“It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Well, when I was younger, in high school, I started out smoking pot. Which escalated into taking acid on a regular basis, which escalated into selling acid. And then I started, when I went to college, I started doing opiates.”

“Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.”