What is past is prologue.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The Eyes are the window to your soul

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Selfishness is easy to find. Selflessness is a much rarer beast.

I've always been inspired by beautiful interiors.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.

Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write something, it's going to be harder.

I guess I'm drawn to stories of people whose physicality puts them on the outside of things in order to explore the ways in which an identity is formed around these prevailing attitudes.

True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need.

Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.