"o this idea that we fail to stop these things because there's not awareness about them, or that we need better early warning information, I'm increasingly skeptical of."

“Get growing. Back yourself and make mistakes. It's your mistakes and observations that are your greatest tutors.”

“The greatest weariness comes from work not done.”

“I touched my lips to hers again, and this time, it was a very different sort of kiss. It was six years’ worth of kissing, her lips coming to life under mine, tasting of orange and of desire. Her fingers ran through my sideburns and into my hair before linking around my neck, alive and cool on my warm skin. I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once. For once in my human life, my mind didn’t wander to compose a song lyric or store the moment for later reflection. For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else. -Sam”

“Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.”

Source : Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. August 15, 2012.

“I have a necklace with a golden key, given to me by my sisters, which I always wear.”

“Love, in the final analysis, is wisdom.”

“If there was no death, everyone would wish for it.”

“The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star.”