"I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime."

“When you're 6 or 7, your father becomes this wonderful presence in your life. I really responded to my father. And then, the very moment I realized that I loved him unconditionally, that life was going to be great just because he was in it, he was gone.”

“I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.”

“My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.”

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

“Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.”

“Ghosts and vampires are never only about ghosts and vampires.”

Source : Thomas C. Foster (2009). “How to Read Literature Like a Professor”, p.17, Harper Collins

“My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.”

“The thing about nightmares was that you couldn't prepare for them. They sneaked up on you when you were most vulnerable.”

“The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era.”