All men want their whores to be unhappy.

Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.

She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost