There's always someone's father, someone's mother, someone's wife, someone's son. This is the problem with killing and eating people. One of the problems.

You love life because life's all there is.

The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.

You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.

I didn't cry. Real things don't make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I'm like most civilised humans.

You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you'll find it a room.

Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.

By all means, become an abomination--but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.

I read somewhere that when you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

The actions of yesterday, the pretenses of tomorrow, and the presence of now, have forever added to history.

The greatest please in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Whats more awkward than doing a shower scene? Rehearsing a shower scene.

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

I now know that nothing in my life will change until I change the way I see my life and myself.

I loved writing Dumbledore and he is the epitome of goodness.

I'm blessed to have great friends, and there are a lot of men in my life who've been more than just friends.

Communism: Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty

What? do I love her, that I desire to hear her speak again, and feast upon her eyes