The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.

One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.