Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder.

—the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.

She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration that met her own, blow for blow.

Half-truths only added up to a whole lie.

For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I think they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours.

It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.

He said he'd never remarry, because he'd never find another lady that fit so neatly at his side. He called her his equal in spirit.

What good is honour when greed eats away at its foundations?

Who could be satisfied with seeking out the four corners of one small world, when there was the whole of time to be had?

The moment you resist change, you resist existing past your current state of awareness.

Since taking are of one small baby is the hardest job on earth, I am constantly late, as I am today.

As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it.

I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

I was into writing and directing. I was a bit of a reluctant actor. I would always ask friends to shoot or direct their movies, but then they'd want me to be in them.

Trevor possessed many of the qualities of a vampire without actually being one. He constantly preyed on me, was deeply charismatic, and tried to suck the life out of me.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.

Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.