I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.

I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I've given you, not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way I can want you to love me.

What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is a realm of malevolence where the good has no chance to win. Let them check their premises. Let them check their standards of value. Let them check - before they grant themselves the unspeakable license of evil-as-necessity - whether they know what is the good and what are the conditions it requires.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.