I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.

What came is gone forever every time

When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.

Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?

I could never have gone to Africa another way and had the same experience. It was my job and my joy at the same time.

A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.

You're lucky to head a coalition government. I am a coalition government on my own.

I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.

The essence of Bhagavad Gita is that we should always think of Krsna, become His devotee, worship him and offer homage unto him.

One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.