A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination.

I don't really go to fashion parties; they're not my scene.

I love little teddy bears and little fluffy animals. I buy them all the time.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.

I live in L.A. because my kids do. Home is where my kids are for me.

Dance until you shatter yourself.

I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.