By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.
creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it.
until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.
There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.
The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.
I never think over my mistakes. I just live up to them.
The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.
I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not say is unique, but it has a force, a culture, a history that cannot be wasted, and we must do everything so that the European Union has the strength and also the inspiration to make it go forward.
David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me.
Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.
Divorce becomes a holy moment when you choose to use it as a catalyst for having an extraordinary life.