Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.

People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.

You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately.

But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

I will offer thanks for someone who paid a price for offering compassion to me. I will place myself beneath the cross of another who needs my compassion.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle.

I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers.

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.