The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

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.

I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.

The age of Chivalry is gone. An age of Humanity has come.

I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.

I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.

My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves in the characters, pictures, and stories. So they resonate.

While we may not consider the way we talk to be 'violent,' our words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or for ourselves.

What people really suffer from is immaturity. Among mature people war would not be a problem - it would be impossible.

If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.