I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.

I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers.

This can't last. This misery can't last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long.

Don't remember me as too nice or beautiful or funny, because then you'll be disappointed.

Black and white is as if phoenix of colors has eloped into opacity.

The best the world has to offer comes from the best you have to give to others.

We worried for decades about WMDs – Weapons of Mass Destruction. Now it is time to worry about a new kind of WMDs – Weapons of Mass Disruption.

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

When I was a kid I was really into horror films. I watched every single horror film that came out in the 80s.

There is only one way by which you can achieve prosperity. It is to take charge of your mind.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

The better we know each other, the more we love each other.

When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.

In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.