Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.

They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.

Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss

Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.

A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.