The Beautiful is always strange.

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.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future.

The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

I have tried and I cannot find, either in scripture or in history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He allowed them to be hurt deeply.

I would say just in general, in life, I'm more willing to be animated as a person, and so obviously onstage as well.

The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs.

I've always had a problem within myself of feeling that people didn't really see me as a musician and I'm out to get a bit of musical credibility.

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

If you're not frustrated that you're not playing football then you shouldn't be playing football