What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening.

Romance is a tender kiss with a lingering promise of more to come.

Because a spoon is made of gold does not change the soup’s taste.

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest part of nothing.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

You do learn from what you've done in the past.

It is good to dream! After I dream, I envision, and after I envision, I create!

The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.

Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court.