"Self-love seems so often unrequited."

"[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing."

"Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed."

"The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd – one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like – …"

"Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the …"

"People think because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Because a novel's invented, …"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"

"Besides the darkness of the night, many minor shadows cross our paths, making the hues of Life obscure. These are not…"