"There are no facts, only interpretations...." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.”

“The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.”

“Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.”

“Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.”

“There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.”

“The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life,in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use.”

“The reading of the song is vital. The written word is first always . . . first. Not belittling the music, but it really is a backdrop. To convey the meaning of a song you need to look at the lyric and understand it.”

“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.”

“All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.”