Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.