Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

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

The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.

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

The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it; such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.