An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!

If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.

Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.

Everybody knows that orthopaedic science provides beautiful false noses for those who have lost their noses naturally or as the result of an operation.

You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!

You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.

There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.

Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!

Erik: Are you very tired? Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.

All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

The promise of the future is only possible when the price is paid in full and in advance.

The beautiful affair of sun, sky and the sea brings a perfect moment of love, peace and joy

infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success.

In order to accept yourself, you must first have some sense of who you are.

All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

Today the vacuum [of space] is not regarded as empty. It is a sea of dynamic energy, like the spray of foam near a turbulent waterfall.

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.

My sense of humor tends toward both the dark and the absurd - two great tastes that, in my opinion, taste great together.

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.