It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one.

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

What a strange sort of love, to be entirely free from that quality of selfishness which is frequently the chief constituent of the passion, and sometimes it's only one!

Compassion is given freely with no expectation of reward.

Jag föddes för att kränga rosor på de dödas avenyer

Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.

You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.

And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.