Be sure your sin will find you out...Be sure.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.

I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.

Engaging in meditative self-reflection and gaining increased control of inner experiences provides a person with a sense of control over fear and trembling and the chaos of life.

We were enjoying one of those rare summers of utter freedom – no financial responsibility, no debts, no time owing to anybody.

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.

I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often where the drama is.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

God has positioned me just this way to be just like I am, to say what I say how I say it.

At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.