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.

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!

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

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.

When the actions of others no longer matter, then you will have succeeded within your own mind.

I have to believe in reincarnation. believing that I'll be in one place forever is a hell in itself.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity.

Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!

People are really angry at Washington. And they have a right to be. It's why I ran in 2010, by the way.

The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.

I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.