When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished. . . that's kind of disappointing.
One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life, except on one point. They could speak clearly, readily, profoundly on everything; till their thoughts were caught in the breakers of their delusions and went to pieces there, were dispersed and swamped in that furious and terrible sea of fogs and squalls which is called MADNESS.
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
[On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes!
From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to keep it.
You are the light of the world. Shine, and darkness will disappear.
I go to dance clubs. . . about once a year just to justify the other 364 days I spend in my apartment going 'God, what idiots!'