All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.