Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?

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.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.

People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive.

I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad.

The large majority of faith-based people are decent, fair-minded people. We should not characterize people of faith as the adversaries of GLBT equality.

If I had a reality show, it would probably be called “Keeping Fit With Jesse Tyler Ferguson” because then I’d be forced to hit the gym every day.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.

He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.

Oh, Daja," moaned Jory, "you sound just like my parents." She ran from the schoolroom. "Well, there's no reason to insult me, "muttered Daja, half offended.