"The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs."

"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."

"It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton."

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

"An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work."

"I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team."

"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."

"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."