Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.

Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ?

Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.

Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.

A life allied with mine, for the rest of our lives... that is the miracle of marriage.

Fallen myths can instill venom.

This peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and the European conception of war has had profound consequences for morality, education, and politics.

We like who we become in response to injustice: it makes it easy to choose a side. Our capacity to care, to get angry, is called forth like some muscle we weren't entirely aware we had.

This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

My style is ambiguous and lucid.

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.

I can live with myself.

As a child I watched Mary Poppins so many times I suffered from a condition with my sight. Umdiddleiddleiddleumdiddle Eye.

Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.

Letting go is the ultimate weakness.