If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore

There are women who have forgotten that to be a woman doesn't simply mean humiliation, doesn't simply mean bitterness. I haven't forgotten it yet...I'm not going to forget it.

The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.

This was not as real as my despairing sense that nothing was real for me, nothing would ever be real for me again – unless, indeed, this sensation of falling was reality…

The real troubles with living is that living is so banal.

She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had been empty since she had been away.

It's too bad war makes peopledisappear like chess pieces, and that prisonsturn prisoners into movie endings.

things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.

To oblige people often costs little and helps much.

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

But it's healthy - whatever you can do to keep you fresh and awake. Acting's such a ridiculous job and sometimes you need to look at it like that to get a sort of degree of freshness.

I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.

Approach every meeting with a purposeful, high-energy, ready-to-make-a-contribution attitude, and watch how fast leadership’s perception of you follows your behavior.

Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

I like the dueling club scene, where Daniel and I fight with our wands. I thought it was a brilliant scene to shoot. I think the end product looked really good.