The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.

America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance, in agreement--and yet... the whole world lies between.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

I was a million percent in love with Edward Scissorhands. I remember looking in the mirror on the last day of shooting... and thinking how sad I was to be saying goodbye to Edward.

I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

Everyone has their own approach to how they work.

Mitt Romney has undergone an extreme makeover, and it ain’t pretty.

To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.

I don't believe in pick-up lines because I've always been very comfortable in my own skin.