War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.

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

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman to a degree. The United States is the first nation to become the most powerful in the world without having sought to be so. Its exceptional energy and organization have never been oriented toward conquest.

Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.

As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.