The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

A young man is afraid of his demon and pulls his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him.

There's so much of you here with me, really, it's a pity you aren't all here.

Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.

That's our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

For my part, life is so many things I don't care what it is. It's not my affair to sum it up. Just now it's a cup of tea. This morning it was wormwood and gall. Hand me the sugar.