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

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

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

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

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

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

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.