Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends.

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

I just fought with all my heart. I believed that I could still win no matter what the score was.

I believed that I could still win no matter what the score was.

Books should not be loved selfishly. Neither books nor anything else, in fact.

When we cannot see, we don't judge. Small wonder when we kiss, cry, laugh, make love, are in pain, pray and listen to music, we close our eyes.

We all write stories in our minds, but only few have the courage to put them on paper.

It is ironic that even today men are judged by how much they have and women by how they look while both should be judged by how they act.

You can face fear, or feel it, her dad used to say. … Feel it, and it eats you alive. Face it, and you get to kick some ugly alien butt. Okay, he never said that. I wonder if they even have butts.

Shape? Does a fog have shape? Does the twilight? Does the onset of darkness?

Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do…

Be intentionally infectious. Make your brand contagiously buzz worthy.

What you want is to rev up your metabolism so that you are burning fat and calories, not preserving fat and calories.

A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.

Thinking that everything must be bigger to matter is a problem. Small power emanates and disseminates in a very different way.

I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.

I have been working on two problems for three years: one of them for 8 or 9 years, and one of them for 3, 4, 5 years.