No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?

Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.