"Sincerity is not a virtue. It is a vice."

"The truth is that every man is a murderer, and we kill in our dreams and our indifference, but also in our deeds."

"What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome."

"The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."