I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.