Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

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.

I love you so much i can hardly tell my own heart from yours anymore, and I've never said it to another woman in my life as it's never until now been true.

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife

If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.

Rock music seems to be very fragmented these days, I can't say that I ever really hear anything that just knocks me over.

It will never be a perfect time, you can only make time perfect.

The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.

Rap will never be the same as before

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

If I could go back and give myself advice, it would be to embrace failure.

I grew into it. It grew into me. It and I blurred at the edges, became one amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.