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.

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)

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.

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.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

If you can do it, why you won't do it???If you have chance why you won't use it?

I ain't grouchy, ” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

If you can't see God in All, you can't see God at all.

I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there.

I have always felt my role as a designer is to do the very best I can for a woman to make her look her best. Fashion is only fashion once a woman puts it on.

I am too busy thinking about killing myself.

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.