It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.

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.

Those with no one to blame are alone with their grief.

Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

I talk to myself, especially in the car.

Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.

I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind.

My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating - moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

It's very hard to predict what people are thinking.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

I'm quite a fan of British designers.