It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.

My race is not a better race, it is simply a different race.

It all begins with goodness in the heart.

The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.

I find male singers and what they sing about fascinating. It makes me realize how little we know about ourselves and how little I know about myself. It's interesting to see the male perspective.

I don't wait for inspiration. Writing is my job.

That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.

Another top issue for the upcoming [Donald] Trump administration is tax policy.

Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.

The consumer, so it is said, is the king each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.