There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.

You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

You cannot clean a dirty wall with dirty hands.

The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.

I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.

Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important.

I particularly like the catchphrase of Leonardo Da Vinci: Ostinato Rigore! (Which means, pretty much, Relentless Rigor).

I was 17 and the whole thing was very confusing at the time. It was a great job and I loved it, and to lose the role was definitely tough for me. I was devastated when I lost the role.

You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar.

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.