Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.
Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer
History develops, art stands still.
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.
I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.
One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.
Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.