Understanding is the beginning of approving.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

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.

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Understanding is the beginning of approving.

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