No artist tolerates reality.

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.