My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.

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.

Also, in the dismal Cold Waste, any man treasures illusions, though knowing them almost certainly to be such.

Metaphysics is not the result of understanding the limitations of physics.It’s rather the result of the limitation in understanding physics.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind.

I don't want to get into some sort of back-and-forth on insults because that just drags everybody down.

I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.

A culture disconnected from wild nature becomes insane.

I cant immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.

Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown.