Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of t…

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

As soon as the war ended, we located the one spot on earth that hadn't been touched by the war and blew it to hell.

'Stalin was a guy like we are, not only that he considered himself a revolutionary and lived like one, but he was a character in the truest sense of the word .…