My spirit life very much depends on my work. My work very much depends on my spirit life. And I pray every day, as part of my own ritual, to a god I believe in, not a god somebody else believes in.

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

It may be that it is not given to us to know when we are angels. We may only be given to know when others are. This may be one of the reasons we need each other so.

Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone. If they mean it, they need it.

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

If your vulnerability has become hardened, it's very, very difficult to be creative.

An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you.

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

I don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.

The road to success is often paid with so many sacrifices.

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.

Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.

Always turn your wheel in the direction of the skid.

What was my great sin? To have revealed the private property of the bank - well if this is being a criminal, then maybe I'm a great criminal.

It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.