When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.

Above all shadows rides the Sunand Stars for ever dwell:I will not say the Day is done, nor bid the Stars farewell.

Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons.

She filled herself entirely with the molten dark.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land.

The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing.

Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.

A man feels impelled to do something to keep awake.