And if you ever - and I do mean ever - try to leave me, I’m goin’ with you.

Need is what tears people apart. When you want someone, you never really need them. But as soon as you start to need someone, they no longer want you.

Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?

I think all music is a gift from God.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

Playing somebody who's obsessed. Playing somebody who is transgressing, and who is really crossing moral lines and ethical lines. That's always interesting.

Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?

The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.