The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.

I dont know what happens to country.

A house in the middle of nowhere always reminds us our Earth’s position in the universe!

One’s capacity for hearing about ghastly doings lessens with age.

Faith is obedience nothing else.

I guess no matter what your family is like, you're not surprised.

I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.

The nice part about being wealthy is I can do what I want to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But I have to be honest.

Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

Everywhere I go, I can't wear everything a designer creates. I'm a little more gritty.

The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.