A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.
It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past.
It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.
Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.