One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard!

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.

I don't care where I'm from, nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.