If someone with whom one is having an affair keeps on mentioning some woman whom he knew in the past, however long ago it is since they separated, one is always irritated.

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.

There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked.

One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own version is inaccurate — disgusting behavior!

A good lover will behave just as elegantly at dawn as at any other time.

To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure.

Like a bird, fly against the wind of opinions to reach your destination.

He was in the flow of time now. He was in a story.

I used to consider the listener. But now I'm in a space where, if I'm not inspired, I can't really do the music. I can't feel it.

The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.

We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.

There's two kinds of pain in sports: the pain of discipline and the pain of regret.

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

Trying to keep up with current slang sucks.

Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.

England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!