I stumbled upon something and someone so magnificent I was truly blind to it.

They always come back, but we don’t always answer.

I stopped writing in the obvious. I wrote how I saw it and if they don’t understand it, that’s fine.

I didn’t fear you. I feared us. I feared what could have been. I feared what could be. I feared the connection we had between each other. The toxicity because I could grasp the danger.

We grow apart because we grow in different stages and not all of our stages align.

If I had amnesia, I know I would fall in love with you all over again.

The fact that neither of us made sense was the beauty of it.

I think we might’ve met in a past life. You know, one of those you pass and think, wow you’re kind of beautiful. Just one of those.

I romanticized him until he was the perfect being. A soul so beautiful, but so immensely evil too.

To fall in love with pain is to fall in love with art.

You didn’t understand the poem, but that was because it wasn’t for you. It was for me to understand the pain you put me through.

What good is a fragile spirit, as when touched, shatters into a thousand pieces.

If the thunder is not loud the peasant forgets to cross himself.

How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?

Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.

I’m going to pass a law that no one can ask me my golf score.

The more I learn about the evolution of ideas, the more I have become aware that I am simply an unrepentant Old Whig-with the stress on the "old.

When the bird and the book disagree, believe the bird.

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play.

Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of the hills gets into your blood out there.