I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

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