So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

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.

Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around

In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.

We are, as we die, who we most were in life...

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.

That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

There are no dead ends, just detours.

But work a year and sleep an hour, and sleep a night and sing a day, And take a little wine and love, and when you feel religious—pray.

I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.