The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

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.

A hole is nothing at all but you can break your neck in it.

What's interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren't interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict - or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.

People are whupped. I'm whupped. My wife is whupped. Unless it's your job to be curious, who really has the time to sit and ask questions and explore issues?

No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise America up.

The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.

Went from most hated to the Champion God Flow, I guess that's a feelin' only me and LeBron know.

I've needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me. Logan to Madeline

Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

The good news is your surgery was a success and now you look like a movie star! The bad news is that movie star is Drew Carey!