Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.

Human beings can't bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves.

You can never have for yourself someone who isn't on good terms with himself.

Amongst all the colours in this multicoloured world, even jet black has its reserved place.

... Paris was a city of love for unimaginative folks.

If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America's gluttony on fossil fuel.

It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it.

Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.

If you have to release bad news to the public, it would help if you are not ugly.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

Some grow young, some grow cold...

I don't drink anymore, on the other hand I don't drink any less either.