What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.

If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.