Certainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know.

When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.

I'm never sure why I do anything, to tell you the truth.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.

I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.

He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got up every morning and did their public work. Because they weren't going to dynamite their factories and have naked parties in the fire.