He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

I am the only real truth I know.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

There is no point reminding you the memories you don't remember.

He could sleep in the ruins of cities lost for centuries.

This is the trouble with real-life story arcs: the happiness is so rarely saved for the end.

I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.

I was a straight man long before I knew what it was called. I was just the boring one.

Pause and remember - Every morning is a new page in the story of your life. You are creating your life at every moment. Think wisely about the day you want to create for yourself.

And Bobby [Jindal] and I are both Catholics.

From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.

I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.

As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.