Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.

There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.

Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.

The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!

In order to create, equilibrium must be broken.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

If you don't care about quality, you can meet any other requirement.

In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.

I'm such a goody two-shoes, I don't even taste the fruit at the grocery store. Like oh, are these grapes good? I can't even do that. I'm that much of a rule-follower.

A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.

I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting