A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

Do as you must -- you are not a child. But understand that there are many people willing to make your life more difficult. It is up to you to find a way to make things easier for yourself.

Buddhas also have to be swept away, because the door can become a hindrance if you cling to it.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf.

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.

... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.

Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.

You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.