Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

I purely came over because I thought you looked extremely lonely. You have an extremely sensitive face.

I believe his lies, so he believes mine.' She turns and looks at me straight on. 'That's how it goes at the end of love.

Adversity will always show up but it doesn't always have to come up.

It's important you stay professional and keep working, and I'm thankful for everything that's happened to me.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

We're good at noticing sudden movements of middle size objects in our immediate visual field, but what is out of sight is for us is largely out of mind.

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

With stones, you can build walls to separate people or build bridges to unite them.

We are all one. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.