The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.

Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake.

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

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.

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.