It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

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.

Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Always having what we wantmay not be the best good fortuneHealth seems sweetestafter sickness, foodin hunger, goodnessin the wake of evil, and at the endof daylong labor sleep.

Well, memory can play tricks. Most people, I think, tend to remember the good rather than the bad when someone close to them dies.

Mother's love always peace as it not to be acquired nor deserved.

America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.

Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

My interest in philosophy began as early as eight years old - I started thinking about those kinds of heavy questions about life and humanity.

When this No-Mind has been well developed, the mind does not stop with one thing nor does it lack any one thing. It appears appropriately when facing a time of need.