Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

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.

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be

We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.

Not all celebrities are dunces.

Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect.

It's not that I'm retired, I just no longer accept acting work.

If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Gwen Goodnight

My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.

A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.

The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

The intellect must be different from the soul.