“One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit it—or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.”
― I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
― I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
“I know nothing of god or the devil. I have never learned a secret nor found a cure that would damn or save my soul.”
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“It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.”
― The Vampire Lestat
― The Vampire Lestat
“I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!”
― Interview with the Vampire
― Interview with the Vampire
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