What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

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.

What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.