It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.

What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.