The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

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.

Given a choice, I would never want a life totally devoid of pain, but life is meaningless without some sadness.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.

Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself.

I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.

You flatter me shamelessly. I like it. Good.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.

Be an artist. Don't say it, do it.