The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep valleys; two about its sides, one in front, and the fourth behind.

It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Art is nothing without form.

Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep beside a stream, or choose a sentimental book! We are constantly building and unbuilding ourselves.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.