It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world.

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

That which yields is not always weak.

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

All knowledge is worth having

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

Emptiness is like air. It floats around unseen but you know it's there.

Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

Don't instantly throw yourself into external demands.

Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.

Our need for public safety and our need for privacy are crashing into each other and we've got to sort that out.

Every year, at 8:00 PM on the second Saturday of July, hundreds of people gather along a section of Los Angeles rail track to drop their pants and moon passing passenger trains.

Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.

I'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys.

I believe it is no secret that I like Japan very much - Japanese culture, sport, including judo, but it will not offend anyone if I say that I like Russia even more.