How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

God has created the world to be run by His principles.

I have found that winning isn't everything, and, in fact, in the relationships I most care about, it isn't anything.

WHY is the word which changed the world

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.

I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.

I would say looking fat sometimes. I really do take it seriously. I try to do what I can and diet and stay in shape, and it does make me insecure when I'm heavy.

I fell in love with traveling and thought being a photographer would be an interesting way to travel and make a living.

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.