In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

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 was far from being a child prodigy, and yet I learnt relativity at the age of 15!

What we need now are new stories to share with each other, new tales to live into the world, which is to say, stories to make real by living our own versions of them.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

When it comes to serious cuts to major programs like Medicaid, the American people are not calling for leadership but magic. They want cuts with no pain.

Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan I heard when I was 13. It was one of those things where it was like, "Hey, the world is much bigger than you imagined as a little kid."

Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible-he has made economics comprehensible and funny.

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

Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine.

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

I don't need a lot of space.