Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything or be anyone what do you do with it?

It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about, we are taught to expect happiness but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet and I was gonna keep it rather than return it but I thought: well if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.

The little may contrast with the great in painting but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast, but there are also colors contrary to each other that is which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

He was so depressed he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible hence it cannot recognize itself, anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

The press is the enemy.

Laughter is America's most important export.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

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