It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

Art is the accomplice of love.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

I can last two months on a good compliment.

The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that.

the best ideas flow at night

I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.

The FEAR of becoming dehydrated causes dehydration. As with so many things in our life, it is because we KNOW it is a problem that it is a problem.

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

If the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?

We artists allow others to see through our windows.