I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.

I like seeing people when they can't see me.

And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

Make every picture a #loveselfie and fill every moment with soul.

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

I'm interested in someone who's mired in grief: how do you get back to that thing that makes them warm? Because you know that's in there.

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

To go nowhere, follow the crowd.

Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.

I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.