You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.

Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.

It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American. The ugly American at his ugly worst. That's exactly what it is.

Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and the true art.

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.