Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?

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.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.

Look at a person's light, not their lampshade.

WHILE A MANS BATTLE against himself is undoubtedly at the heart of golfs abiding appeal, the setting in which it is played is, for most golfers, one of the most wonderful things about it.

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

One of these days I'm going to write a book on drops. That ought to sell. The shot's become more popular than putting.

Coke didn't last long enough; it gave me a hangover for two weeks for being high for ten minutes.

At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.