You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

Population when unchecked increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.

I'm lucky I have really cool parents.

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.

Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper.

The United States has a system of taxation by confession

It's not about one person doing one big thing ... It's about a lot of people doing small things that really make the difference.

There is no doubt that the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will wipe off this stigma [Israel] from the face of the Islamic world.

Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.