One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can't get help from your friends or family. You're finally alone with it and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.

Good luck needs no explanation.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.

You've got to S-M-I-L-ETo be H-A-Double-P-Y

When I was fourteen I was the oldest I ever was. ... I've been getting younger ever since.

What's he doing here anyway? And where is his shirt? I take a quick glance and swallow hard. Never Mind. The shirt can stay gone.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

If some event happens and it seems really important to me and moving to me, I'll write it down in my lyric book knowing that it will come out in a song.

Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: "We have money like manure.

For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

Psychologists call it "free-floating" anxiety. What contradictory words. Anxiety doesn't free-float. It stalks. It attacks. It lands on you with a thud.

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.

You don't want to ruin a kid's life for having a joint.

The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.