“You know, the thing is with people who never talk, the thing is you always suppose they're harbouring some enormous secret. But, just possibly, the secret is, they have absolutely nothing to say.”

“See it? Oh, I have no interest in seeing it. Seeing it might get in the way of my opinion.”

“The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue!”

“Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.”

“The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.”

“(How do you know a piece is finished?:) It's never finished. The subject is never exhausted. -Louise Bourgeois”

“I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why, before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.”