Berlin is all about volatility. Its identity is based not on stability but on change.

The process of communication with the afterlife - more of an exchange than a conversation - has always fascinated me.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery.

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.

You can talk without saying a thing. I don't ever want to be that type of person.

My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to the end of it.

I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money.

I have a problem with homosexual acts.

I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.