The rebuke came, keen-edged. ‘Trusting the man is not the same thing as knowing what he’s about.

An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.

It’s tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.

Death has no repeal. It is a brute ending that leaves us the legacy of an inscrutable silence. Therefore, I understand the voice of mercy very well.

Though my mental illness is more likened to a big, nasty green monster than something heart-wrenchingly beautiful, I think I have learned many wonderful lessons from my many afflictions.

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures but a compromise can usually be found.

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.

Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth.

Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

If something can't be explained on the back of an envelope, it's rubbish.