Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

Normal people do not create art.

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.

Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.