Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.

Don't be fooled by your own wisdom

The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate class.

To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage.

Our element is unending immaturity.