I always compare reading anything on the Internet to listening at doors. If you don't want to hear anything bad about yourself, you should never do it.

They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths.' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I was that black-wearing teenager and yes, I wore a little eyeliner.

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

You can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes.

I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.

I'm an actor and a writer, that's how I think of myself. Sometimes my time is divided equally, sometimes less equally, but that's what I do.

It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.

I prefer sneaking in the back door.

If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.

Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'.

One man's fish is another man's poisson.

None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the dawn of creation looked upon the work of his hands.

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.

Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.

I love the jacket with a varnish finish, a bomber. I adore the proportions, with the tight skirt, no stockings, very sexy - skirt to the knee.

When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.

I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.

Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give back to life.