I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

I lived in Italy for three years and wanted no part of the country's disreputable way of life.

A HUG IS LIKE VIOLENCE MADE OF LOVE.

If they endangered us, they also saved us from danger. If they harmed us, we have harmed them.

To have paranoia, it's nothing bad it's like your antivurs system on your computer, it makes as much secure as possible.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

More than the Big Mac, Coca Cola, or Levi's 501 jeans, the dollar is surely the United States' signature export.

The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.

You hold in your hands the happiness of more people than you can imagine.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

Bowing to the Saudi king is not an energy policy.