Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they're gone, you know, and they're following somebody else.
Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!
As for success, I don't care for it. It is a fragile thing.
As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
Words writ in waters.
Even when we get what we wish, it is not ours.
Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
Everything transitory is but an image.
Even nothing cannot last forever.
The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.
Time bears away all things.
A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.
We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.
Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.
Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?
Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
Everything is only a dream.
Each morning brings a hidden blessing; a blessing which is unique to that day, and which cannot be kept or re-used. If we do not use this miracle today, it will be lost.
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.
Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can't stay long.
How quickly passes away the glory of this world.
