Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.

It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

Reality has always had too many heads.

The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit.

What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

I went to a meeting for premature ejactulators. I left early.

Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.