Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

The laws of this world are for children.

God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.

We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.

I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything.

Search fearlessly for every sin, for out of sin comes joy.

I was a baby when I came into the world--otherwise I might have been smart enough to become a different person.

Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Thoughts as warm as a silky summer rain, flowing over the edge of my soul's gentle.not tides returning them along the shoreline to laughing gulls.

When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up.

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.

I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing. You're editing each other and you're trying to create that one spark.

Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.

Love's never a fair trade.

It's just that only now are women coming around, and when someone as striking as Alanis or Sheryl Crow comes out, the public just needs something to compare it to.

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope.

Everything becomes creative if the person doing the job is

It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.