In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

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.

It’s the law, Jack. When the government breaks the law, they have to toe the line.

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.

Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.

Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise of liquidation implied in every bond issue is a false promise.

As long as I fear my weakness, I am stronger than when I trust my strength.

Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth.

They say ya additude determines ya laditude.

Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.

I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.