Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

What's the good of not believing? Today it's your wife you don't believe; tomorrow it's God Himself you won't take stock in.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.