There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.My sin, my soul.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.

I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.

The most precious thing in the world: me, because if there was no me, nothing could work out in this world

Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right, if he hits you once, you’re asleep for the night

Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.

There are so many sitcoms. So, when you get to be a part of something that feels exciting to you, you just want to be a part of it.

The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to the "best" sources.