Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead.

Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.

Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

I'm one of the more positive cats, but when people go off about everybody wanting to be a DJ, I don't doubt them either. I understand their point as well.

First of all, learn to laugh at yourself. That's the best way to enjoy yourself, you know, and not to spend much time in the mirror, that's another way.

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Fitting people with books is about as difficult as fitting them with shoes.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.