Time, that aged nurse, Rocked me to patience.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.

Synchronicity - the sense of significance beyond chance

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.

Working at Moschino has been great because I just have to deliver when I have to deliver.

I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.

The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of intuitive reason. The face of the new art. The square is a living, regal infant. The first step of pure creation in art.

When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

What people who don't create don't understand, is that once you take money from the machine, the machine [movie industry] owns you.