It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The beginning is always today.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Always tell what you feel. Do what you think...

Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of our lives, we would be different person, perhaps a lesser person.

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.

I want my music to be able to tell a story about what I've experienced and what I think my fans will be able to understand also.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me.

Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.

Because the Pang brothers are twins, they would rotate days on set. One of them would be editing, and one of them would be shooting.

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

I don't think I really started to seriously compose until around that time when I was 40.

How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.