France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

I wanted to close my eyes and let the silence swallow me whole.

The only way to get positive feelings about yourself is to take positive actions. Man does not live as he thinks he thinks as he lives.

Some people just aren't meant to be happy.

Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.

You are not living, you are surviving.

I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.

When you get back into the editing suite in the cold light of day, the written stuff is better.

There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.

One of the more dispiriting things I think about endless touring is hearing the same piece of music over and over again and I end up feeling like a fraud.