Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed.

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

I am the only real truth I know.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

Mind is judgmental but heart is not so love with heart, not with mind.

African-Americans are as fair as any other group, but they bring their life experiences to bear as just as whites bring their experiences to bear.

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

Bono as we all know, is in love with the world, he's enamoured by it. I'm enraged by it. He wants to give the world a great big hug, I want to punch its lights out.

Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.

Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry.

I do or die, but I never cancel out.

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

We have wide-ranging joint projects in the nuclear energy sphere, logistics, machine building and trade as a whole [with China].