She'll sting you one day, Oh, ever so gently, so you hardly ever feel it. 'til you fall dead.

How often when we are comfortable, we begin to long for something new!

Love is like death, it must come to us all, but to each his own unique way and time, sometimes it will be avoided, but never can it be cheated, and never will it be forgotten.

I'm Death, and I make sure that everyone is equal.

The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.

Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.

Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.

He who is too well off is always longing for something new.

Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language.

In the olden days, when wishing still worked, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest daughter was so lovely that even the sun... was struck with wonder.

They were indeed great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost.

There are so many different kinds of ghosts.

In the grounds of the château was a churchsaid to date from the year 1000, and he went to look at it, but he had never really understood what people saw in oldchurches.

I freely admit I'm confused. I'm a confused and troubled individual but at the same time...Its Free!

Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.

Citizenship to me is more than a piece of paper. Citizenship is also about character. I am an American. We're just waiting for our country to recognize it.

I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.

There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.