I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.

He was so narrow-minded, he could see a keyhole with both eyes.

Gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

Leave me, before I get over the wall & slay you.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.

Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.