Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

The last thing we ever learn about ourselves is our effect.

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

When it's mutual, a man and a woman know, instinctively, wordlessly. They may do nothing about it, but the knowledge of that shared desire is out there in the world - as obvious as neon, saying: I want you, I want you, I want you.

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.

She's half mad and three parts drunk.