There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

Empathy is the highest qualification one can obtain in order to genuinely love.

I found that when it hurt, sometimes the most effective response was to feel the pain rather than wish it away or pretend it was not there.

I'm still a student of fashion, but I like hooking up with the people that really know how to make cool clothes.

Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

I'm urgin all daughters to kiss their mothers with those lips that all that lipstick covers. You never too grown up to miss and hug her.

That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.

Kids need to start thinking for themselves. Not to be like their friends that think they're individuals. I don't want you to be like us, I want you to be like you.