Solitude is the profoundest fact

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

Deserve your dream.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

Every moment is nothing without end.

Whatever is not stone is light

Romantic relationships are the least interesting thing for me to write about. I'm 45, and that's not the most interesting thing in my life anymore.

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

now I am capable of youth, but not capable of few years - that is the pitiful thing.

I'm an internationalist. I want to help others, not just kill terrorists.

No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!

Half-heartedne ss doesn't reach into majesty.

Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.

There seems to be no mainframe explanation for the PC world in which we're living.

Fans are all I care about - to be honest. If they stop coming to the shows, then I will get worried.