Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

There just seems to be too much violence everywhere, even the news can't help break now and then on TV

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.

Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

I want collaboration, but if they don't have a plan or their vision isn't clear, it's nerve-wracking. So, someone that's very sure of the vision is what you want, most of all.

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.

Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.