You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.

being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.