For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

The old agility was still present and the passion was undeniable, but it was the wobbling of the gut, the puffing of the cheeks and the profuse sweating that lent the performance its true magic.

Winning the [Nobel] prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.

Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

Today the main, over-riding purpose of the European Union is different: not to win peace, but to secure prosperity.

Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.

I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than three days after I am dead.... Tis well.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

Hell is being trapped in a night-club with the'beautiful people'and forced to live in a'luxury penthouse flat'.

It's a joy to actually be able to control your own music.