when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.

One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.

Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.

The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.

One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm.

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

He (Marilyn Manson) has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

Today the sort of thing for a guy in England growing up is that you have to suppress all your emotions. It's almost like you have to sit back and be cool.

Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.

I dont categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I dont judge; I just play them.

You cannot fix what you cannot face.