Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

Love must wait; it must break one’s bones.

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.

I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

He offered her power, money, status...a giant prison, all in exchange for only...her soul.

I am not the Messiah. I am a simple human being with the unlimited power of love and kindness.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.

If I do my best and produce the best products, that is my purpose, then I shall definitely be compensated. The by product will come when the product is good.

If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

I've had a nontabloid life because I had a really good family.

Death is just the moment that your hourglass runs out of sand. That's it. It happens to everyone eventually. All any of us gets to decide is where the sand falls.

We were working in entertainment, in the music industry, with popular music, it was important, but it was something that we also felt was a responsibility.