The beautiful is always bizarre.

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.

Stop teasing you two, ” Suzy jumped in, “not all of Kathy’s ideas are wacky.”“Gee thanks. Was that supposed to be a compliment?

The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.

Hatred is internal calamity that destroys the keeper

The bottom line is in heaven!

The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

As a slave [to fashion], I can be very dramatic and very demanding of myself and of the people I work with.

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational.

Remember that the writing itself is good for you. If your story is so close to home that you are afraid to write it, it probably means you need to write it.

Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do.