Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

Blessed is the nightbird that sings for joy and not to be heard.

Sure. If she gets mugged, she can just flute them to death.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

A lot of the music video stuff I've worked on is mostly me pitching ideas, and then if [the artists] have notes or thoughts, I'll integrate them into the idea.

The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.'

I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat I put on instantly leaps from my head.

There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.

She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.