No more crying. Tears only cause destructivefloods. When you are sad, you build a boat.

Beauty becomes uglyunder the influence ofthe demons inside the mind.

A boss says “go and make sure you do it”

Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did

No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the pleasure of consuming the goods they do not get born to enjoy.

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues.