“You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.”

Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.

Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

We forget very easily what gives us pain.

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.

I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.

I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

Innocence is a kind of insanity.

Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

Because sometimes the value lasts only as long as the distance does.

Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it’s about other people.

Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don’t have face-to-face time, it’s just different.

I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.

We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.