Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

I want to be remembered as iconic and different.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

For me, often, there’s such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I’m going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don’t know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

I have the ’77 Million Paintings‘ running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I’ll look up from what I’m doing and I think, ‚God, I’ve never seen anything like that before!‘ And that’s a real thrill.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Dogs never bite me – just humans.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

No sane man will dance.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

Love is the one wild card.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

Man is by nature a political animal.