Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.

You put your time where your priority is.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

In life we are always getting ready to live, but we are forgetting to live in the process.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

In New York the other day, there was a pro-Martha Stewart rally. Only four people showed up ... and three of them were made out of crepe paper!

You can’t have a normal practice with nine skaters, Until we have more than nine guys, it’s not going to be a regular practice.

Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here.

If the whole country had to have the same conversation that was safe for everybody, it would be a pretty awful place to live. There wouldn't be a conversation.

To see myself in everybody, and everybody in myself, most certainly is love.

[YSL creative director] Hedi [Slimane] is a music-obsessed guy. I might've originally met him through Sky.