God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

From the end spring new beginnings.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

In wine, there's truth.

Suddenly you realize that you are the mother of the Universe, eager to protect, transform and care every soul of the world.

It will pass, whatever it is.

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

You always face a bunch of hands trying to stop you from working.

I work out two, two and a half hours a day.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.

Even my mom is calling me Shaggy now, which is weird, because Shaggy is more like a character that I play.

This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not diagnosed for myself!

Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.