All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)

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!

He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart. He had loved an angel and now he despised a woman.

when a man", continued Raoul, "adopts such romantic methods to entice a young girl's affections. ..""The man must be either a villain, or the girl a fool: is that it?

I'm sick and tired of having a forest and a torture chamber in my house... I want to have a nice quiet flat with ordinary doors and windows and a wife inside it, like anybody else!

While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.

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.

My heart is broke but I have some glue.

My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

You don't learn to fly if you're not prepared to crash

All critics should be assassinated.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

I wanted everybody to see a sunrise and be knocked out by the miracle of it, the world being created every morning.

Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure.

They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.

So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.