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

Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.

To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.