...having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.

This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws.

We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.

Education means breaking free from the manacles of limitations put forward by primitive ignorance.

In a world full of polished and perfected final drafts, she was the raw and honest scribbled story.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

Sometimes your wish can become chaos ... be careful what you wish for!

Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

I tend to read non-fiction.

My Geordie is probably just about as bad as my English.

Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat.

The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out the University was nearly all male. And they certainly weren't mixed.

Experience means you did a lot of things wrong.