Loneliness was an inseparable part of being human.

Every book is a journey, a map into the complexities of the human mind and soul.

Kiss with your soul, where lips can never reach. Touch with your eyes, penetrate deep. Love every part, fully, complete.

Your music hurts, the way sunshine hurts when you’ve existed for a long time in darkness.

My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band and their National Orchestra. It'll bring tears to your eyes.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

I'm not really into the fashion thing.

The belly laugh is the best way to evacuate anguish.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

I think people tend to be worried about every new technology that comes along.

When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall.

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.