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Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

The only point in creating something is to watch it die. Like a story that must come to a climax, what I have done will not be fulfilled until the end has arrived.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.

It is not quite true to say that I am not an advocate of writing in African languages. What I think is, one has to think about what is practicable.

Kissing's no fun when you have herpes

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.

Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material.