Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

I made very good money and spent all of it every week. I lived paycheck to paycheck...

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.

I've got an allergy to looking too neat.

One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book." And I say, "Which one, for God's sake, I've done six now!" "Oceans of Sound".

Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.

London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.

What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners? – A violation bordering on death, bordering on murder?

Back in those days it was just me swimming around in the dark, doing back flips and taking naps whenever I want.

A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing business as an art.