You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.
Remembering is only a new form of suffering.
To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
Nothing can be done except little by little.
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
The person that I like is someone that I am uneasy about.
If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience; maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience.
Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.
Writing system software is like planning a family. If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.