From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.

For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build.

Life doesn’t need magic to be magical.(But a little bit sure doesn't hurt.)

Your desire for increase is a sign that we are alive

I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.

If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven

For me, in songwriting, I have a route I can take. Maybe there's some forks, I can go this way, this way. But I know those roads. I still have the experience behind me.

An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.

On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, "Melancholia? Ad nauseam."

I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so.

Train where your fitness is NOW, not where you want to be.