It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

Good to evil seems evil

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.

He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

But no man's a hero to himself.

Beware the autumn people

The dust was antique spice, burnt maple leaves, a prickling blue that teemed and sifted to earth. Swarming its own shadows, the dust filtered over the tents.

If weakness pervades the body, then it's mind we must strengthen

He didn’t want to talk about London’s wreck, and so he steered the conversation back towards Professor Pennyroyal’s favourite subject: Professor Pennyroyal.

We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I'm handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end.

When you see the body outside of a costume and see the strength that it takes, people would look at dance a different way and see how athletic it is. You're not just born like that.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.