Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship of superiority or inferiority with regard to every other. Strict equality is exceedingly improbable and anomalous.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.