Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.

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.

I don't care what it looks, I don't care what it feels like, I believe God.

At great expense, we have built a vast system of inter-connecting stupidities.

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.

If you learn to trust God when the sun is shining, it is easier to trust Him on the day when there are dark and lowering clouds in the sky and you are in one of life's storms.

When I am old, I shall wear purple.

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

Our Lord sends the crosses; we do not have to invent them.

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.