Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.

We come to beginnings only at the end.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

If someone truly loves you, they won't try to change you or take away your freedom to choose.

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working

I thought that if no one was going to give me a great part - and it was very difficult to break into film, obviously - then I'd write one myself.

I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are.

I think we love who we love and there’s not a damn thing that can be done about it.

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.