“I defy anyone who retains the least spark of honour to spit on the real, essential love of one human being for another.”

“I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.”

“I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably ...”

“To be essential to another human being, to be vulnerable, to have another assign themselves generously and selflessly is the ultimate expression of true love, and they understood how lucky they were.”

“In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.”

“Love is being able to be yourself, with another human being who makes you want to be better than yourself.”