Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like.

Morning. Strawberry sky dusted with white winter powder sugar sun. And nobody to munch on it with

Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.

Every girl is a goddess.

No matter how bad things get, you can always see the beauty in them. The worse things get, the more you have to make yourself see the magic in order to survive.

When you live in a city with no stars to wish on, you have to wish on each other.

Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.

If you were a mermaid, you said, If you were a mermaid, I was the sea.

Magic can be found in stolen moments.

The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.

In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren’t. Searching.

Attention is the beginning of devotion.

The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness.

And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest – sometimes with extensive borrowing – when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

But I have never wanted to be perceived as chatty and bright. I have always wanted to be solemn and mysterious.

Talent works, genius creates.

It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.

Acting is my passion and Chelsea FC is my hobby.