How easy to be electrocuted. How fine the line between beauty and peril.

No matter how far I try to travel from people, people always appear. Either they follow me, or they're already there, and I followed them, unwittingly.

In the face of immense tragedy—yet again—unexpected beauty.

I love that an idea can be so powerful it doesn't matter whether I've seen the artwork for real or not.

Now I wonder if each artwork is in fact utterly inaccessible to everybody but the person to whom it is secretly addressed?

Art, and sadness, which last forever.

Blending into the tinctures and textures of the countryside. The tree which falls without any human hearing still falls, as the creatures who die without being found by a human still die.

I see foxes often, but always they are crossing fallow fields in the distance. Gold flecks on faraway expanses of green. Magnetic to the meandering eye. Enigmatic, unreachable.

I decided that if I didn't allow myself to fall asleep, then I wouldn't have to wake up again and despair.

My mother says: 'People who suffer from anxiety are usually those with the most vivid imaginations.

It’s time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.

I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie

If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.

You may be witty, but not satirical.

Somewhere someone is looking for exactly what you have to offer.

In terms of relationships, women often completely over-estimate the confidence of men, and forget about needing to feel validated.

Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.

You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.

In God, I move and breathe and have my being.

The film is better for me than the sitcom. But the sitcom is like much more practical approach, if I may say that, because of the cost. Everything costs money, a lot of people don't realize that.

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.