The flower that does not smileat the branches withers.

There is nothing I want but your presence.In friendship, time dissolves.Life is a cup. This connectionis pure wine. What else are cups for?I used to have twenty thousanddifferent desires.

A man who believes everything can be explained by science is just as ignorant as someone who believes everything can be explained by religion.

I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.

At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.

Fighting evil, it's hard work.

I have more influence now than when I had the power.

The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.

In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I put it in perspective.

Of course I am a child of European culture. There are a number of great directors from which I learned, but there is nobody in particular I got inspired from.

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.