Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can.

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

My policy has always been to play new music. New beat, industrial, techno, disco, funk, rare groove and house music.

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

Show me one man who knows his own heart, to him I shall belong.

You must have been a beautiful baby, 'Cos baby just look at you now.

You do not question an author who appears on the title page as "T.V.N. Persaud, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.Path. (Lond.), F.F.Path. (R.C.P.I.), F.A.C.O.G.

Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.

I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.