Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

We never remember days, only moments.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Keep your secrets. You're too young and beautiful not to have secrets.

There will always be a moment to feel sorry for the mistakes, but indeed it is not today.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting - but I love playing other people's music.

You can't create the future unless you imagine it.

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.

I don't really care if people like a character ornot; I think in life we don't always like everybody. But you haveto be able to understand them.

It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.

The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a “dangerous enemy.

A person moving in zero gravity feels a pitiful helplessness. One wrong move and you find yourself spinning wildly. Everyone becomes a baby again in outer space, laboriously learning how to walk.