There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

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.

I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.

There is something more beautiful than a beautiful thing and that is a beautiful thing which has a beautiful reflection on the water!

I didn't get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every day of my life naturally. That is what fascinates me.

If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

I want to do something to help those who lost their parents, who lost their mothers and their fathers. Those are our people. Those are our children. Those are our parents.

I wouldn't doubt it if the CIA is behind Alcoholics Anonymous.