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

Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.

Astrologys a moving system that depends on where youre looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down in New Zealand.

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

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

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.

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.