You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.

Never trust a man who reads only one book.

She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.

Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.

Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.

What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here.

...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.

Everyone gets the devil he deserves.

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.

Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things.

If you fill the atmosphere with toxins, then you really cannot be surprised if the solar radiation transmission through it becomes toxic to humans.

People are likely to act based on their emotions and then backward-rationalize. Because women have highly developed emotional circuits, they are especially susceptible to this.

I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.

If you’re not going to feel how are you going to know what to think? Isn’t it in the nature of feeling to evolve thought?

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

I've had everything pierced at some point.

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

As a performer, I don't like to play the same thing over and over. I like to play it and let it go and move on. That's also why television hasn't really been something that I've done.

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.