Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.