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„Судьба переменчива: плохие дни чередуются с очень плохими.“

„Лучшее средство для промывки мозгов — правда.“

„Будет ли секс после смерти? Будет, только чувствовать его мы не сможем.“

„Для меня сексуальная свобода означает свободу от обязанности заниматься сексом.“

„Если секс — сугубо личное дело, как можно надеяться найти для него партнёра?“

„Реальность — это убежище для тех, кто боится наркотиков.“

“What if it's boring… or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.”

“Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.”

“If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.”

“Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.”

“Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.”

“When you talk about yourself for 35 years, first of all, it gets repetitious. And then it seems a little bit excessive, at the least.”

“I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.”

“Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.”

“I swear people don't want sex so much as they want somebody who'll listen to 'em … the first thing you learn after fellatio is how to listen.”

“Your problem is your role models were models.”

“If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than "survival of the fittest." I think a better idea would be "survival of the wittiest." At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing.”

“When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.”

“The point I want to make is, the idea that people will say — out of the 170,000 people or however many were killed in the tsunami — they'll say, "God saved me." As if God particularly saved this person. There's a tremendous amount of narcissism in that belief, that God is speaking directly to you. I mean, it's unbelievable. … All these disparate opinions and points of view that people say they're getting as direct divine guidance — I've been concerned for decades about presidents who claim to be born again. And knowing that everyone I knew in the fundamentalist church or in the evangelical Christian church — they wanted the rapture to come. … We don't have to save the environment, because we're not going to be around.”

“I've seen these women all my life, I know how they walk, I know how they talk…”

“I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.”

“I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.”

“Interviewer: You once said you had a drug problem…
Lily: Yeah, I still do. It's so hard to find good grass these days.”

“There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.”

“If you can't be direct, why be?”

“If the formula for water is H2O, is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared?”

“We went to a Southern Baptist church. When I was a small child, until I was about 8 or 9 years old, I worried if I didn't go forward and get saved every Sunday — which I couldn't do, it was absolutely too humiliating to see these adults flailing and beating their breasts and sobbing, and I thought, Oh, my God, this is so ridiculous, so embarrassing — I could never bring myself to go forward. And I'd think, Oh, my God, if I don't go next Sunday, if the end of the world comes, I'll go to hell. And that's is a pretty hard thing for a 7- or 8-year-old to carry all the time”

“People think there's some real subversive thing playing against whoever it is; a lot of it is just people who want to go along and get along. And they also want to make money. And the bottom line is, they're going to put out as much stuff as they can — stupid, banal stuff that makes money.”

“If I had known what it would be like to have it all… I might have been willing to settle for less.”

“All my life, I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.”

“For fast acting relief, try slowing down.”

“Some journalists are just motivated by their own sense of what they want to say or what they feel comfortable saying or writing about. In '77, I was on the cover of Time.”

“And that's the truth!”