My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.

Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience...

To Howard Goodkin, for the immense work he did in his short life so Hispanic children can stand tall and proud.

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.

The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

It's a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster.