But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

When your past tries to haunt you tell it you don’t believe in ghosts.

Behind every successful woman, there's a big prick.

I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. There's a lot of cool stuff in there... all the heartbreak of the country darkness.

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

What's risky is living your life and never trying for anything and never doing something brave and never getting yourself scared.

By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.

I follow my law and fulfil it all duly and look! when your doubt runneth high North points to the needle!

You got to stop asking your politicians how they are going to do this or that...