And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

Being single doesn't mean you're weak, it means that you're strong enough to wait for the right person.

War is the trade of Kings.

I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.

By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.

What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.

To launch a business means successfully solving problems. Solving problems means listening.

Sleep is over-rated. Have you ever noticed how it's always recommended to people anybody with half a brain can see need to wake up?