People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.

When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.

Witches, he thought. Always rhyming.

Vanity dulls the senses.

The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India's transformation in the new millennium.

You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.

The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.

I would always rather be in the arena fighting than be a spectator.

I'll show up at Fashion Week with a mink on with a lion head biting my shoulder. I would love that. Oh my God, with a jaguar tail on my shoes. Something crazy.

My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.

For me, my music has always been like an open diary.