Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

Love is blind, reason is deaf. You need both to survive.

You just can't stop smiling when you get unconditional love.

A poet is a pillar of light in the darkness. Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

Constantly take inventory of what's important to you.

What else is wrong with 'suicide' bombing? Legally, less than what one might believe. While it may or may not be good strategy, it appears to be permissable under international law.

The Universe is responding to who you FEEL you are.

In every feeling, look deeply. Explore without ceasing. At bottom, love is.

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

I am the world's worst diabetic.