The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.