Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

Life imitates art -- but badly.

I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.