To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.

You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.

By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.

We are under the spell always of what is distant from us. It is not in our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.

There is a case and a strong case for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

When your focus is too narrow you can miss the big picture.

The decision of their fates lay elsewhere, and the thought of that alone was utterly terrifying.

It costs a man just as much or even more to go to hell than to come to heaven. Narrow, exceedingly narrow is the way to perdition!

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

Yes, it benefits the planet, but I don't lead with the green message anymore because I think there's a more evergreen way to look at it, which is efficiency.

Our society has got to evolve and create better ways of living.

I've never been with an uncircumcised guy.

In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun.