I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.

I'm not interested in whether you've sat with the great

Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.

I know my style of music is very eclectic.

If you're not talking, you're not playing defense

We know the Russian methods exactly. I haven't the faintest intention of being taken prisoner by the Russians.

The best-adjusted people are the ‘psychologically patriotic,’ who are glad to be what they are.

As Socrates I believe said the unexamined life is not worth living. I believe that's true. I do believe that.

Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.