Only sick music makes money today.

No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.

When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.

He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.