life is a succession of readjustments.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

A belief is an absolute but arbitrary mental stance.

If God made us in his image we have certainly returned the compliment.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting.

You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself

this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.