There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

Answer me immediately or I'll start cutting away everything that's pretty on you...and then put it back.

If the United Nations wants to do something to be remembered forever, I guess that would be freeing people from insanity of religion.

We use to think that we’ll go to Heaven if we avoid sins or have our pastor remove them. To labor ourselves into paradise is a new and somewhat discouraging perspective.

While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.

I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.

Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.