If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

Everything transitory is but an image.

What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?

If the whole world I once could seeOn free soil stand, with the people freeThen to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

To end the greatest work designed, A thousand hands need but one mind.

By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn, And not in utter loneliness to live, Myself at last did to the Devil give!

The world turns gray, the air grows cool, the fog blows in. Only at evening can you really value home.

Grant me one hour on love’s most sacred shoresTo clasp the bosom that my soul adores, Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours.

At any specific stage of your life, you are certain about few things which when passes over the time to be something uncertain and vice versa.

I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.

The most rewarding part of writing for TV is - a year ago I would have said it's just watching it on TV, it's just having been done with it and then collecting all that energy.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

I have not loved the world, nor the world me.

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

I think it's harder to make a classic now, not because of what people say, but because artists now are so concerned with what people say.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway.

Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love in the end.