There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.

Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.

Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.

Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

The loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it their own.

Only the chaste are truly obscene.

How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.

Did you knew that the key for heaven opens and the gate for hell.

We're not the only people that have had to suffer, there have always been people that've had to.

If you don't start somewhere, you're gonna go nowhere.

I want to do the right thing for the American people. And to be honest, secondarily, I want to do the right thing for the world.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.

There's no other product that changes function like the computer.

We are all equal on this floor, and a senator must keep his word.

My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.

Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way.