Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.

Tears fall in my heart As tears fall on the town.

La musique avant toute chose.

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

Prends l'e loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck!

A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.

I like this word decadent; all shimmering and purple and gold.

Accept the life that comes. Work and strive, but accept. Don't force the world to be the one you dream.

Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory.

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

Come on 'long prosperous life!'

Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.

To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.

When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

What good is a friend if you cant make an enemy of him?