A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?

I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.