And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...

And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.