When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.