I don’t miss anyone. If I did I would do something about it. Besides, some people come back...in dreams. That’s when they’re honest.

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.

Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.

We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.

Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.

Even "meant to be" takes work.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.

Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?

One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.

There is a certain justice in criticism.

It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them

The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best.

When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.