Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.

In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?