What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

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.

To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.

Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.

The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.