Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals.

They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths.' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I was that black-wearing teenager and yes, I wore a little eyeliner.

I always compare reading anything on the Internet to listening at doors. If you don't want to hear anything bad about yourself, you should never do it.

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

You can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes.

I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.

I'm an actor and a writer, that's how I think of myself. Sometimes my time is divided equally, sometimes less equally, but that's what I do.

It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.

I prefer sneaking in the back door.

If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.

Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'.

Deep love for humanity is a vaccine for depression.

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.

It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.

The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up.

Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God.