When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.

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.

We hurt people, when we give ourselves more value than others.

We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.

It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?

I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.