I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Think of me as an impetuous Hegel, drunk with power, and also, regular drunk.

La vie est une aventure audacieuse ou alors elle n'est rien.

It's my fault but the most violating thing I've felt this year is not the media exaggerations or the catchy gossip, but the rape of my personal thoughts.

You understand my music.

As a sports fan, the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup makes me feel very alive.

We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.

The secret of praying is praying in secret.

To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.

Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.

When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.