literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

Do not allow me to forget you

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.

I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.

As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.

But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.

A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.

It's not just people in Hollywood: I'm sure everyone in the world thinks, 'What would be it like if I won an Oscar?

Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.

Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.