Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.