What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

The main thing is to know something and to say it.

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

You Can't Replace A Star with A Lightbulb

...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...

I'm not going to go run and hide because I'm catching some heat. I'm not going to stay at home and pout.

Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really.

Cultivating your value proposition in life is the way to move forward. You are the raw material of your own destiny.

Tattoos tell stories of crime and passion, punishment and regret. They express an outlaw, antiauthoritarian point of view and communicate a romantic solidarity among society's outcasts.

I see an incredible abuse of close-ups in many films these days. Why is that?

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

Progression and achievement belong to those who have learned to use the opportunity of now. Our strides of today will determine our locations tomorrow.

I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.