It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world

A coward turns away but a brave man's choice is danger.

Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!

The CIA has a plot...they've used before to get rid of world leaders. Only problem...is convincing Hussein...to fly to Dallas.

Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

Getting to communicate with many people through our shows was just great in itself and I felt a lot of energy. I think I learned what love is through our concert.