I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.

No task is more difficult than systematic hypocrisy.

Beware of parting! The true sadness is not in the pain of the parting; it is in the when and the how you are to meet again with the face about to vanish from your view.

Will our souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream?

We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves

Let your only graduation be in the grave.

Humility is not weak, powerless, faint, a pushover, a punching bag or an abuse magnet, because above all — humility cares.

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

The audience requires not information but drama.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

Cinema for me is an area of philosophy and artistic statement.

I don't have much time for real violence at all. I think there are infinitely better ways of changing the world than using violence. Sitting round a table talking is a pretty good start.

I hate walking down a runway in really high heels. I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.

The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else.

I'm just damseling mostly. I'm not very good with a gun.