One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.

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.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Better to be disliked than pitied.

Gravity is neither a force nor a consequence of any space-time curvature. It is simply an orderly spatial illusion to non-spatial observer/s.

I embrace each moment as an opportunity for a miracle.

The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.

I don't like to talk about things until I'm on set shooting them because it doesn't feel real.

There's times when I just have to quit thinking... and the only way I can quit thinking is by shopping.

The truth about stories is, that's all we are.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.