“Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.”

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

A wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.

The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

The only journey is the one within.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

I want my fans to feel like we’re always in touch. Because without ’em, I wouldn’t be able to do any of this.

If you become famous and don’t have a live show to back it up, they’re not going to pay you any money.

Any time someone achieves success before they’ve earned it, it always comes back to haunt them.

Richard Fliehr does not make any money.

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!