A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.

She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.

Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes.

Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.

Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.

My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go.

A small town has as many eyes as a fly

Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

What women want is what men want. They want respect.

Bristol Rovers were 4-0 up at half time, with four goals in the first half.

Unlike a lot of people, I don't need the affirmation or anything.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

Obviously the actors are incredible at being the audience surrogates in this crazy universe.

It's really weird to be in more than one franchise because an actor's life is so nomadic, and so it's a real privilege to get back together with people.

To postpone unpleasantness is human; to forget it is divine.

I think there's a bit of me in every character. Basically it just depends on what happens with the character.

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.