[During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are one in Christ, we will go on.

I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.

In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.

It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.

I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.