As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

My shadow serves as the friend I crave

You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms.

Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.

Sunset in the ethereal waves: I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.

You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.

Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.

Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.

Real tenderness can't be confused, It's quiet and can't be heard.

One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music

By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep them beneath the surface.

I don't like black. You wear black when you're miserable.

In 2003, the value of Airbuss orders was more than twice as much as Boeings.

I like to listen the blues and some classical.

Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.

What we do as an individual affects the whole world.

Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.