One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

We should try to live a life of a human once before we die, because there is a difference between having a life and living a life.

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.

Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.

We ought to love the sinner and hate OUR sin.

The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.

Tottenham ice their sublime cake with the ridiculous.

I am naive. I make mistakes - But I don't give a rat's arse how I am perceived!

I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.

Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.