Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

Only sick music makes money today.

All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to hashish. Well, I had to take to Wagner.

Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome. In all speech there lies an element of contempt.

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.