Even when I was caught in the web, I didn't give up hope. And as you see, I was right.

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.

Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.

Maybe all the people who say ghosts don't exist are just afraid to admit that they do.

What he had hoped for was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

He's a good old sort. If only he weren't plumb crazy!

It was a wonderful feeling, a sense of release and boundless freedom that he had never known before. He was beyond the reach of all the things that had weighed him down and hemmed him in.

... Up until then he had always wanted to be someone other than he was, but he didn't want to change.

The human world is full of weak-minded people, who think they're as clever as can be and are convinced that it's terribly important to persuade even the children that Fanstastica doesn't exist.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated.

Dare to try the impossible.

We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out.

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

I was sexually abused by my step father for years and years, and that caused scars you can't see. And we know many people have the kind of scars you can't see.

. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .

My own son feels I'm uncool but my grandson loves me. Being cool or uncool is a generational thing. But as a personal thing, I really love everybody in sight.

Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.

I like my body so much more now since having my baby.

I was in Nepal and I had watched Oprah Winfrey's show. I had no idea, as a kid in Nepal, who she was, but I remember watching an episode of hers about living your dreams.