People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?

When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?

You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.

One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid.

I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.