I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

The less one notices happiness, the greater it is.

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.

I do not foresee a time when I shall feel that I have nothing to say.

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills… Take control of your world.

I'm one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I'm the only DJ that's scratching.

Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.

With God, there is always a future.

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

Every single day, you're trading your life for who you're working with and what you do.

It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.

I generally have one or two drinks. I hang out in the dressing room, and it's not always the most attractive place to be, so just being able to have a drink is nice.

We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.

The key to my collections is sensuality.