Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.

any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense

I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.

The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.

Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.

God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.

Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat.

The failure of a person is wrapped in his ignorance about his strengths.

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Unfortunately we treat others as we treat ourselves. We should try being genuinely kind to ourselves and the rest will come naturally, like a Platinum Rule.

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

Demons may be either good or bad, like any other class of beings.

I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.

I'm not usually a follower of trends - I like to set them a lot more. I don't like things that people have done already, then it's no fun for me to do it.

I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.