In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

'Our society is besotted by the cult of the ego: books, television programmes, films, literature, magazines, are awash with stories and dramas about personal r…

In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rat…

I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical perf…