“Love means never having to say you’re sorry. However, it is with sincere regret that I must now kill all of you.”

Family is the only real wealth.

Loathesome I am, and evil. You can mock me for that. But leave my pain alone!

There was much bitterness in the family. There were even those who would liked to have considered Barnabas Collins dead. But he lived on. He lived on-and outlived his enemies.

Without grace there is no hope, but with it there is no shortage.

Some men live their lives terrified. Terrified of the night and all that is dark. I will live my life eternally in fear of the light of day.

They tried stoning me, my dear. It did not work.

I have already prepared my counter proposal. It reads thusly: you may strategically place your wonderful lips upon my posterior and kiss it repeatedly!

It is said that blood is thicker than water. It is what joins us, binds us, curses us.

For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political.

One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.

Gosh, I made so many mistakes. I mean I still make mistakes. We all do.

When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.

Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.

If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still.

Seeing my face on a poster is surreal. You look at it and it’s not quite like you, if you know what I mean… it’s almost a third person kind of thing. I still find it strange.

I have never been brought up a Catholic – I mean, a Roman Catholic – we’re all Catholics, aren’t we? We’re Protestant Catholics, whether we’re from Methodist or Baptist or what.