An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

In the history of the earth, the sun remains still.

That it may be the only thing the darkness makes clearer: who really matters is whoever you're most desperate to see.

It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

I think all music is a gift from God.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.

I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.

I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.