A smile opened, thin as a paper cut, in the bottom of Flowers's face.

It was him, thirty years too old, twenty pounds too light, & forty watts too dim maybe, but him.

He felt, and not for the first time today, that he had not made a good decision in his personal or professional life since 1989.

To get lost in the ecstasy and elegance of life, let me dive in the depth of love.

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence.

Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!

Reading musses up my mind.

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.