Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.

The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses.

I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.

Kindness is stronger than iron bars.

The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.

Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.

Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.

Humans are thought to be at the top of the food chain...But there are beings who hunt them as food.These monsters who feed on the dead flesh of humans.They are called......Ghouls.

Until I realize that it’s all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it.

These days, there are angry ghosts all around us, dead from wars, sickness, starvation--and nobody cares. So you say you're under a curse? Well, so what? So's the whole damned world.

Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness?

The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.

I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then.

I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.

I'm actually for gun control -- use both hands.

I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself.

I'll tell you what's fun - finding the right stewardess and turning her upside down in the back of a plane.