A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.