I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.

Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound.

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

It would have been nice to have had unicorns.