Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

I only see clearly what I remember.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

Seeing is not always believing.

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

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Science is nothing but perception.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Well, it’s looks like I’ve a love-hate thing going on with Monaco.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Love is an interesting thing.

If I cry, it’s because I’m very angry and I can’t do anything about it because I’ve run into a dead end. That’s when the tears would come down.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.