When he put his arms around me, and held me to his chest, everything in me settled. When he spoke into my ear, it all came loose again, as if his words evaporated the gravity of my mind.

I was seduced by the idea that even in the dark, we are still as complex and detailed as we are in the light.

The thing is, you can't ever really know how rotten someone will turn out to be.

Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves.

The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank.

Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches.

The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.

The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

I want to stretch myself. Another reason why I'm so fortunate is that this is a drama and I've been brought up in comedy.

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt.