Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

That which yields is not always weak.

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

All knowledge is worth having

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.

When honor dies—when trust is a useless thing—what use is life?

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

Now and forever, I'll remember all the promises still unbroken and think about all the words between us that never needed to be spoken.

One night I was sitting listening to some Hank Williams songs - and they'll change your life in a hurry.

Fear was a thing I understood all too well. It was a malignancy that had spread throughout my body until my mother, in her godly wisdom, had diagnosed and cauterized it.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can't be 50 and trying to skate but I can be 50 and be in fashion, so I have to look to my future and what I want to achieve.

I just want to do films 'cause I like being someone else. My music is kind of like my diary. I'll always do that... I just feel like the music industry isn't as positive as I'd like it to be.

Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.