Creation is much in need of ordering.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

I don't know any sad songs. Except for the funny ones.

Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things.

The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone’s desire.

Chance was just an order that you hadn't yet perceived.

That's the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can't live in them.

It takes discipline to turn illusion into reality.

Time is the soul of this world.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.

You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.

Of course, fresh flowers are the answer to any June gloom you may be feeling. Flowers really do solve all problems.

How short life is for fools.

People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy