The difference between writers and readers is similar to the difference between expressionism and impressionism. Writers want to express themselves and readers want to be impressed.

Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.

Life might not always be as sweet as we desire for it to become, but it could come close enough if we consistently approach it with positive attitudes.

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.

I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That's what girls do. I think I am a girl really.

At the root of all the varied manifestations of dancing, lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot extemalize by rational means.

I know very well that the political classes have spread fear among the electorate: Without the euro, the sun will cease shining, the rivers will stop flowing, we will enter an ice age.

It was a very comfortable and personal relationship [Cliff Martinez ].'The Neon Demon'is our third movie and the music has never been as important as for this movie.

As I've told my three daughters, all of whom I've at one time encouraged to go into macro trading, any man or woman can do anything to which they set their heart and mind.

The Spaniards have been reduced to aiming aimless balls into the box.