A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!

She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!

If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.

Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.

Everybody knows that orthopaedic science provides beautiful false noses for those who have lost their noses naturally or as the result of an operation.

You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!

You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.

Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!

Erik: Are you very tired? Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.

I was no longer following a trail. I was learning to follow myself.

There's no point in spending your life in the pursuit of something that's easy.

And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.

You have to treat yourself like a mushroom to some degree, in order to keep on discovering things.

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.

There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.

There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

Everybody has their own story, everybody has their own journey.