"The magic behind every outstanding performance is always found in the smallest of details."

“I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.”

“Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.”

“A writer is a world trapped in a person.”

“Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.”

“The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.”

“If I don't love myself, I won't survive.”

Source : "The Last Days of Left Eye", www.imdb.com. 2007.

“You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.”

“I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.”