What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.

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

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.