I prefer sneaking in the back door.

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 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.

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.

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.

We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.

She seemed fragile like a moonflower – destined to bloom for a single lovely night, and then to fade and fall.

I think the public will judge if stardom has gotten into my head.

Pure love makes you feel as light as a flower. You won't feel any heaviness or burden. Ego creates the burden.

Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened.

A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.

It's definitely a struggle to prove yourself just as a good human being. I'm so proud of who I am and what I've become, the morals I have, and the people that I'm surrounded by.