Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.