He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.

I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.

A slap from God is better than a handshake from the devil.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day.

So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)

I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.