No...No...We don't walk away but when we're holding on to something precious we run. We run away. We run as fast as we can.

I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.

Make me immortal with a kiss.

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.

What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?

He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.

Remember: if you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget.

Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.

A society without intellectuals is like a body without a head

The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable than one who marches in the uniform of an ally.

British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.

I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men. I've always remained what you might call "feminine" about the whole [work] thing.

Anything I've asked of MGM Grand, they've done for me in a heartbeat. They're all about making entertainers and athletes happy.

I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents.

The effects of Twitter and Facebook and all those things on people's psychologies is a really interesting question to which nobody knows the answer.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.