"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."

"Step with care and great tact ,and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act."

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."

"I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells."

"For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves."

"Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want."

"In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement."

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."