In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

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.

Fruitfulness is impossible without action.

I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City.

Genius as such can neither be explained nor treated away only at times its delay and inhibition and its perversion to destructive or self-destructive ends.

Time like money is measured by our needs.

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Donneven, Bettaquit and Mmmhmmmm

Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied.

Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them.