It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it.

The effort must be total for the results to be meaningful.

I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.

Fame means absolutely nothing except a good table at a restaurant.

God has no religion.

No matter how fast light travels, light will always find darkness, waiting.

Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me.

Later, with strange galaxies turning in slow gavotte overhead, neither thought the act of love had ever been so sweet, so full

Streams of consequence flow from every action, and from every conflict there are two paths by which events may go.

Most analysts are SO SMART and have amazing ideas, but they can't convey their genius ideas to others.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!

If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.

There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.

The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.