Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.

Keep your eye on your inner world and keep away from ads, idiots and movie stars.

It's hard to be always the same person.

The trouble is, I know too much about how to cook to be satisfied with a cook.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

If we wish for mercy ourselves, we must show mercy to all dumb animals.

You only know that you’re in love when you suffer.

The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.

The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.

We judge all things according to the divine truth.

Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came