Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

The truth is, I was always a dreamer, but then I met you, and I knew I will never dream a better dream again.

When we are sad—at least I am like this—it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to the things that don't change.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person.

You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

I was born into wealth and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like food or air.

Nobody would hire me for TV, not that they should.

The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.

The betrayal of people's good will, good trust that things are being done for the best and they actually ARE being done for the best.

I really don't want to thank my wife because I could be bussing tables at the Daily Grill right now if not for her. Jesus, what a gig that'd be.

I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.