Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.

While death and darkness girdle me I grope for immortality.

Sombre and rich, the skies; Great glooms, and starry plains. Gently the night wind sighs; Else a vast silence reigns.

Yet, when the city sleeps; When all the cries are still: The stars and heavenly deeps Work out a perfect will.

The larger the complex, the more the energy it takes away from us

We are our own worst enemy and make no mistake we are destroying ourselves.

To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.

Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.

Those who don't say what they mean will live and die by their own sword.

The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people.

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

Not every show needs to reach the same size of audience, or same width, of a ‘Sopranos,'