Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

It is not too late to fall in love with yourself again.

She was a tragic beauty. Sadness had left its fingerprints all over her face.

Music is faithful…

So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow; the closer you are to the heart, the closer to the reversal. Nowhere to go but down. You reach the core and then you're blown away--

We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence.

Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.

Why is it so weird that somebody didn't recognize me?... The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, 'Nice to meet you. I'm Julia.'

Jack shook his head. "Not one of my many talents, sadly. But if you have a cherry stem I can show you a really cool one.

I quickly realized that Patti [Smith] was somebody very special.

Filmmaking is all about what we like to do on-screen. We have attempted that in the film. I have worked very hard to perform the character.