A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

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.

Love brings passionate patience to create a wonderful world of beauty and magnificence.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Her dark eyes slid to him. "I can't remember the last time I felt so good in clothes."And he wanted to get her out of them.

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. 'Disco Pigs' was my first professional acting experience.

Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

I believe dance is a manifestation and celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit.

I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.