Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

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.

What’s the likelihood? That the one girl who makes my heart race is the one girl who wants me in return? That the accident of my attraction coincides with the accident of hers?

All men want their whores to be unhappy.

For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he might have said, or might have done—a judgment that is necessarily hampered, not only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem.

I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.