"There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back."

“The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.”

Source : Mahmoud Darwish (2012). “Journal of an Ordinary Grief”, p.82, Archipelago

“For some people, the beginning is a time of complete chaos. You see bits and pieces of what is before you. You have a sense of what it is you must set out to do. But nothing will form yet. When you sit down to write or paint or form movement, it's like stepping over a cliff or into a dense fog. All you can do is trust that this impending masterpiece is going to somehow manifest itself as you work. But you do know that there is something specific ahead, and you feel the excitement of that.”

“To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.”

Source : Jean Genet (1973). “The Thief's Journal”

“A good rapper is a good rapper, a good album is a good album. I don't think anyone is inherently good.”

“I would love to be in 'Downton Abbey.' That's the thing I thing many people would have a good laugh with me saying anything like that. I feel like that's the next phase of my career. To reprove to everyone that I can do things besides the crazy characters.”

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

“If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.”

“What greater wound is there than a false friend?”

“It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.”