Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

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.

In my soul the afternoon grows wider and I reflect.

One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves.

You’re my favorite person of all time, I see something more beautiful than the universe.

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

Some wounds should be healed, no matter how much time has passed or how much time is left.

The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics

I'm so fortunate, it's ridiculous.

Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.

Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody.

God has just always put me in the right place I guess.