Changi for me - of course it's easy to be wise after the event, and to discuss it cleverly after the event - was about as near as you can get to being dead and still be alive.

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

You never know . . . that's what makes life interesting.

So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

What can I do to help thee?" he asked. "Believe there is a tomorrow.

Life and death are the same...Leave karma to karma.

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world - and the most dangerous.

.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.

Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

Love doesn't make the world go round Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.

You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright.

The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks.

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.