I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.

All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.

Where ever I am not is the place where I am myself.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.