By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.

History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea.Or the people who found Atlantis.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently

There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss.

If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fishcakes.

I have stretch marks on my heart.

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.

Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience.

I'm always happy. I like to have fun. During the game, I don't like showing my emotions, though. I'm all about winning the game. I take a lot of responsibility for that.

It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.

Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly.