And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.

How can you possibly have an international agreement that's effective unless countries like China and India are not full participants?

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

It's nice to feel needed... it's better to feel wanted.

A merry heart is good like a medicine.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

I'd bet a million dollars on DOOM against Lil' Wayne

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

Wake up, Astrid. Your psychotic criminal is playing with knives. (Sasha)

The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.