There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.

She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!

If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.

Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.

Everybody knows that orthopaedic science provides beautiful false noses for those who have lost their noses naturally or as the result of an operation.

You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!

You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!

Erik: Are you very tired? Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.

All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should we not seek continuity with other animals for our 'noble' traits as well?

Never let your perspective change the truth. The truth should always change your perspective.

Religion should be a basis for overcoming division, not for creating it.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.

My state, Scott Walker, our governors, reformed Medicaid so it actually works, so that the doctors will take the program.

What joy is better than the news of friends?