In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.