It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.

I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

To be weird! That is my goal!

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

I'm not claiming to be sober. I think that that would be misleading. I drink alcohol. My father has a vineyard, and the wine is really delicious, by the way.

Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is .

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it.

The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.

Your life's short, don't ever question the length / It's cool to cry, don't ever question your strength.

In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.

... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have differed in this regard.

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.