The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

The future is a split second away.

Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.

Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.

An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.

In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.

I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!

The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted.

We live in the world we are thinking of.

I've never hit a woman in my life. Not even my own mother.

I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw.