Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.

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.

Be careful what you say...you might end up in my next book!

I was an elementary school teacher.

No Republican has ever won South Carolina and Iowa or New Hampshire, as Trump has, without going on to win the nomination.

The message to both parties should be right now that we need to find ways to work together to speak to the American public.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

I really like older writers, perhaps because they take me out of my element. I don't have a great deal of interest in reading a fictionalized present as it's pretty insane as it is.

The church has been planted as a paradise in this world.

If you eat one less candy bar or donut a day, you're doing your body some good.

I want to keep playing at the kind of level where I'll get respect from everybody.