Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches

Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.

If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.

Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?

Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

It doesn't matter how fast you move, I learned, if you never go anywhere.

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

It was a miserable thing, to be responsible for breaking your own heart.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

Democracy is hard work.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

In the night, I hear 'em talk. Coldest story ever told. Somewhere far along this road he lost his soul.

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.

Just because you lose doesn't make you a loser. It's not the same fight every time.

I am here and I am safe and I am sick of it.

If I'd been asked to play an Asian man [in Doctor Strange] I would've shown them Benedict Wong.