There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.

History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea.Or the people who found Atlantis.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently

There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss.

If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fishcakes.

When you are angry, be still and do not speak.

Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book.

I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra.

We have to use our freedoms and privileges to see what respite we can give to those less equipped to deal with their challenges.

I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.

I love getting dressed up doing the whole premiere look.

If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.

The power of a good film is to engage you and draw you into its world.

I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.