There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.
I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.
Just take what you need from the ladies and leave them.
I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.
It pays to get drunk with the best people.
Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.