Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.