Genius is childhood recalled at will.

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.

To talk [negatively] about someone specific is considered slander. You need to have a general understanding about things. Slandering someone is a sign of going to a lower life form in the next birth.

she's so caught up she's unaware she's no longer the prisoner here, I am

Failures and mistakes are definitely the greatest teachers to all great minds.

With all my heart, I seek to reach the Holy Land.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

Greenmail, in case you're wondering, is when a company pays a raider a premium for his holdings-if he'll go away. What I think it really is is blackmail in a pin-striped suit.

Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.

I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.

Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.