The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.

Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

It takes love to hold on when you want to let go. It takes love to let go when you want to hold on.

Cynicism is a boring and dull old man’s disease people have no business getting when they’re young.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

You don't want to not be single because you're scared of being single.

The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.

I'm quite insufferable about fitness, I suppose. I think it's really important, though I'm not a body nut.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

The option is always on the table. When we [with Bjork] were starting as creative kids in the Eighties, we found each other. I was 19, she was 16 and a friendship was made.