The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

My brain tends to take the scenic route. Things come to the forefront of my mind sooner or later, it just takes time.

Victory & failure are second things but at least you tried that's more important..!!

The sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the streets of Rome.

Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident.

Time and memory are true artists they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

If he didn't want to be mauled, he shouldn't have put himself right in my path.

As you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore.

Just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

Each one's destiny cannot be altered.