Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness.

Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.

Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.

Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

The loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it their own.

Only the chaste are truly obscene.

How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.

Where there is insistence, there is tenacity and where there is tenacity, there is anguish.

I don't desire to be intelligent, but I do desire to be loving and kind.

Have you ever realised that if a person can make you angry, that person actually controls you.

My future is one I must make myself.

TV is a huge draw. It's a magnet. Even when I was a policeman, if I was on a police scene and the news showed up, I'd race home to see if I would be on TV for 2 seconds!

Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

I'm not blind to the fact that we have to do a better job with our relationships between the community and police.

I want to do weird things and big budget things and no budget things. I don't have a five-year plan.

There are times we have to put our body on the line for what we believe, for the injustices we see even within our own families.

Certainly the Government has tried to handle the matter of our relations with the rest of the Continent in a very sensitive manner.