On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.