“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.”

“I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.”

“I am enraptured by Hindu philosophy, whose essential endeavor is to surmount the self; and everything I do, everything I think is only myself and the selfs humiliations.”

“We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.”

“Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.”

“And how does God speak to you?"
"In the language of everything that is beautiful.”

“[Whose_property]Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the State die? Oh no.”

“Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing…because music is everything.”

“Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.”

“As for the Soothsayer, although I am certain no one feels the true beauties of that work better than I, I am far from finding these beauties in the same places as the infatuated public does. They are not the products of study and knowledge, but rather are inspired by taste and sensitivity.”