I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth]; it almost made me want to be a film-maker!