The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.