All you can do is make your decisions based on what you know now.

I don't believe in worrying. It's a waste of energy.

The world is inviolable: it has no beginning and no end. Those who seek to change it will be changed.

She had never known that ice could take on so many shades of blue: sharp lines of indigo like the deepest sea, aquamarine shadows, even the glint of blue-green where the sun struck just so.

I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Perhaps this was part of growing older, to undergo hideous alterations in the deepest certainties, in love, in lovers, finally in one's self.

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.

I do write songs about love but I don't really know love that well.

As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.

In a zero-sum game, the problem is entirely one of distribution, not at all one of production.

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

First, recognize the mistake. The main thing is taking responsibility and being authentic.

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.