Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.
Brethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved. What, then, will become of the sinner?
Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.
I have often repented of having spoken, but never of having been silent.
O God, do not leave me. I have done nothing good in Your sight, but according to Your goodness, let me now make a beginning of good.
The progress of manufactures and commerce insensibly collects a large multitude within the walls of a city: but these citizens are no longer soldiers; and the arts which adorn and improve the state of civil society, corrupt the habits of the military life.
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
The only place where you could see life and death, i. e. , violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.
But I wouldn't call myself sadistic.