The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.

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.

Every kind word or action has an equal reaction. What you put out comes back to you. Why not make it caring and joyful?

...the simple task of getting dressed and undressed was a real strain, but nothing could compare with her addiction to deep sleep...

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

I don't believe in hasty marriages.

I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.

I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I have very good binoculars.

The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.

It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.