Nothing passes. Everything stays with you. Everything makes it’s mark.

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

A woman's got as much right -and more cause - to get drunk than any man

Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut.

There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

You need someone to love you while you are looking for someone to love.

I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect

I’m not afraid of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.

My usual self is a very unusual self.

[On England:] In this country there are only two seasons, winter and winter.

Belief is the essential ingredient for success, thus if you believe, you can achieve, for real you will achieve.

I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.

Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.

My drawings are the result of my sculpture.

You have to be with the right person. Its so much more important to meet the right person, whether youre married or not, than it is to get married and get a divorce.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

When its comes to music and books 'OK' is not good enough. We need creative work that floors us! That we can't believe the beauty and brains and style and cool of. 'OK' can kiss my arse.

I like TV, I feel comfortable there and I'm willing to take every opportunity that's offered to me.

I can't wait to retire from acting and just sit around and get fat.