Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

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.

Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it.

Greatness comes not in possessing security, but in withstanding insecurity.

The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.