Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.

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.

Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.

We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

I do have the cheesiest of cheesy chat-up lines used on me.

...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.

People struggle most with seeing new ways of doing things and often need help in breaking through their tradition-bound mindsets.

I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

I feel like I've been fortunate enough that I've gotten to meet and work with some really passionate people.