You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much.

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.

As a lyricist, you love to hear other great lyrics or other great concepts.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

I like girls, but I prefer having a girlfriend. I like having someone I can spoil.

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

A nuclear armed Iran makes the world less safe, less stable, less secure.

I'm excited to doing more scoring work in the future.

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.