To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

Work is the opposite of creativity.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.

You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.

Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .

It is of no concern to me if one is rich or poor, healthy or sick, at some time or another life will be pretty difficult for everyone. That is one of the reasons why my figures do not smile.

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like.

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

All things are manifestations of one thing only.

'Media' is the plural for 'mediocre'.

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'