Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

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.

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

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.

I tried to get away from him, to get to that door, but instead I backed up against the wall and was stuck there in that white, white room.

Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.

Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make us comfortable.

I've learned a lot at home and been able to take what I've learned at home to the court.

I think if the extremists were happy with my films, I'd start to worry.

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.